Gravity's Rainbow
19.99 €
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Gravity's Rainbow
19.99 €
Thomas Pynchon—along with Salinger, "the great American recluse"—is one of the greatest writers of world literature of the 20th and now 21st centuries, unanimously recognized after his first publications as a classic on the level of Nabokov, Joyce, and Borges. His Gravity's Rainbow is the premier postwar novel of world literature, encompassing the second half of the 20th century just as Joyce's Ulysses encompassed the first.
It is a grandiose postmodern epic and a caustic satire, a tragedy fused with farce and a radical anti-war statement, a counterculture bible and an explosive blend of irony and conspiracy theories; finally, it is a unique reading experience and a surreal travelogue through the underworld of our collective past. Without Gravity's Rainbow, there would be no Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, no cyberpunk at all, and the landscape of contemporary literature itself would be entirely different.
For nearly half a century, new meanings are constantly being discovered in this book, but the only correct reading remains, fortunately, elusive. Having won the National Book Award, America's premier literary award, and been nominated for a dozen other prestigious prizes, its radicalism prompting a flurry of resignations from esteemed juries, Gravity's Rainbow remains both timeless and unconventional.
It is a grandiose postmodern epic and a caustic satire, a tragedy fused with farce and a radical anti-war statement, a counterculture bible and an explosive blend of irony and conspiracy theories; finally, it is a unique reading experience and a surreal travelogue through the underworld of our collective past. Without Gravity's Rainbow, there would be no Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, no cyberpunk at all, and the landscape of contemporary literature itself would be entirely different.
For nearly half a century, new meanings are constantly being discovered in this book, but the only correct reading remains, fortunately, elusive. Having won the National Book Award, America's premier literary award, and been nominated for a dozen other prestigious prizes, its radicalism prompting a flurry of resignations from esteemed juries, Gravity's Rainbow remains both timeless and unconventional.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Foreign Literature. Large Books