Thomas Pynchon Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction Series
Auteur : Tanner Tony
Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulness and experimentation and wealth of allusion, to the work of James Joyce. Aspects of history, psychology, technology and science, cultural and political movements, problems of identity and society and the status and function of fiction and narrative in the modern world are all dramatized with extraordinary wit and power.
Tony Tanner provides a brief, comprehensive introduction to his work. Against the background of Pynchon the man, this book, originally published in 1982, examines in detail his early short stories (some of which are not easily accessible) and offers a guide to the reading of his novels, V., The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity?s Rainbow. Many of Pynchon?s recurrent themes, from entropy and information theory to his interest in the operations and divisions of power in the world since the Second World War, are considered. Finally, Tony Tanner places Pynchon and his work in a broader cultural and literary context.
General Editors’ Preface. Acknowledgements. A Note on the Texts. 1. Thomas Pynchon and the Death of the Author 2. Early Short Fiction 3. V. 4. The Crying of Lot 49 5. Gravity’s Rainbow. Notes. Bibliography.
Date de parution : 10-2021
12.9x19.8 cm
Date de parution : 10-2019
12.9x19.8 cm
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