"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." Thomas Pynchon author of Gravity's Rainbow 1973
63 2015-06-24 by [deleted]
Pynchon's most celebrated novel is his third, Gravity's Rainbow, published in 1973. An intricate and allusive fiction that combines and elaborates on many of the themes of his earlier work, including preterition, paranoia, racism, colonialism, conspiracy, synchronicity, and entropy. The novel has spawned a wealth of commentary and critical material, including reader's guides, books and scholarly articles, online concordances and discussions, and art works. Its artistic value is often compared to that of James Joyce's Ulysses. Some scholars have hailed it as the greatest American post-WW2 novel, and it has similarly been described as "literally an anthology of postmodernist themes and devices".
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon | 1973 Novel PDF Archive.org
Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History | Project Muse
Thomas Pynchon: A Brief Chronology | Digital Commons UNL.edu
3 comments
2 WolfgangJones 2015-06-24
Sidenote: Gravity's Rainbow was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1974 by the Pulitzer Prize jury, but was rejected by the Pulitzer board for one passage related to coprophilia. Ultimately, no Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded that year.
On another note, I just finished reading Pynchon's Bleeding Edge (2013)...
I highly recommend this book to subscribers of r/conspiracy. Although Pynchon employs a unique style of writing that can be initially challenging to follow, once you've grown used to it (like a strange dialect), it soon becomes quite fascinating and enjoyable.
1 dejenerate 2015-06-24
I feel like this quote describes the "everything is a hoax" phenomenon perfectly.
1 George_Tenet 2015-06-24
textbook of a limited hangout
gr8 quote