Thomas Pynchon (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Before his novels began to come out, Thomas Pynchon published a handful of short stories: “The Small Rain” (1959), “Mortality and Mercy in Vienna” (1959), “Low- Lands” (1960), “Entropy” (1960), and “Under the Rose” (1961—an early version of chapter 3 of V.). With the exception of “Mortality and Mercy,” these stories appear in the 1984 collection Slow Learner, which also includes “The Secret Integration,” originally published in 1964. Two magazine publications, “The World (This One), the Flesh (Mrs. Oedipa...

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