Gravity's Rainbow (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Pynchon
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Picaresque fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction, Alternate history
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Sex or sexuality, Europe or Europeans, 1940’s, World War II, Drugs, Espionage or spies, Behaviorism, Technology, Paranoia, Quest, Arms or weapons, Rocketry or rockets
- Locales: Europe, United States, London, England
The questions of free will and determinism in a universe which may be subject to entropy are most sharply defined by Pynchon in his longest and most complete novel, Gravity's Rainbow. Set in the closing days of World War II and the months immediately following the end of the war, this novel takes the themes and techniques of the two earlier novels to higher levels. Gravity's Rainbow—in part because many regard it as a masterpiece and in part because it is so complex, involves so many strands of action, and poses so many unanswered questions—has been the subject of...
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