Thomas Pynchon (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Thomas Pynchon’s first two novels earned him a place in the forefront of American fiction. His novels and stories combine wild, almost slapstick humor with violent action and a bleak outlook on human possibilities. Gravity’s Rainbow, a longer and far more complex work than his first two novels, brought him wide attention and distinction as a pioneer in metafiction, a term used to define works that go far beyond the conventions of realism to include the supernatural and the fantastic. They may fairly be called fabulations.
His antirealistic...
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