Pynchon, Thomas (Vol. 6) - Pynchon, Thomas 1937–
Pynchon, Thomas 1937–
Pynchon, an American novelist, is considered a major experimental novelist for his two extraordinary works, V. and Gravity's Rainbow. With a plethora of technological detail, dense prose, and dark humor, Pynchon searches for a glimmer of human truth in the "cultural shock" of contemporary experience. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-20, rev. ed.)
Thomas Pynchon made his intentions clear from the outset. The title of his first important short story is 'Entropy' … and it contains specific references to Henry Adams. Whereas some novelists would prefer to cover the philosophic tracks which gave them decisive shaping hints for their novels, Pynchon puts those tracks on the surface of his writing. Indeed his work is about those tracks and, more largely, the whole human instinct and need to make tracks. Adams wanted a theory which would act as a 'trail' in 'the thickset forests of history' and even if...
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