Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his…
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Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge.
Part II zooms out to give a bird's-eye-view of Pynchon's novelistic practice across his entire career. Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. Part III surveys major topics of Pynchon's fiction: history, politics, alterity ('otherness'), and science and technology.
Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, the Companion begins