The Crying of Lot 49 (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Pynchon
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Primarily San Francisco, California
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, Truth, Wills, Wit or humor, San Francisco, Popular culture
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
Characters Discussed
Oedipa Maas, a suburban California housewife and Young Republican who is the coexecutrix of the huge estate of Pierce Inverarity, her former lover. An attractive woman of twenty-eight with long hair, she is intelligent and dissatisfied. Feeling imprisoned even before she got married, she looked for liberation through Pierce, but he died, leaving her the job of sorting out his legacy and character. This challenge becomes a mock religious quest. She is a whiz at interpreting texts, but in this case the more information she accumulates, the more difficult it...
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