Pynchon, Thomas (Vol. 9) - Pynchon, Thomas 1937–
Pynchon, Thomas 1937–
Pynchon is an experimental, award-winning American novelist in the "black humor" tradition of Barth, Heller, and Vonnegut. Utilizing his strong technical and scientific background, Pynchon explodes in his novels traditional literary form, speech, and style to paint a self-destructive world. Richard Schickel has described Gravity's Rainbow as a novel which, "turning ever inward on itself, like one of the characters it contains,… must inevitably self-destruct in our hands." Pynchon is also the author of V. and The Crying of Lot 49. (See also CLC, Vols. 2, 3, 6, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-20, rev. ed.)
Pynchon's descriptive brilliance and architectonic inventiveness are such that one sometimes forgets the simplicity of the formula on which he builds his 900-page structure [Gravity's Rainbow]. (p. 47)
Gravity's Rainbow, at least at first glance, reveals many of the...
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