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Thomas Pynchon - along with Salinger, "the great American recluse", one of the greatest writers of world literature of XX and now XXI century, after the first publications unanimously recognized as a classic of the level of Nabokov, Joyce and Borges. Pynchon's heroes are traditionally obsessed with themes of universal conspiracy and social paranoia, the search for the secret springs of history. And who would have thought that the author of such cornerstones of postmodernism as "V." and "Gravity's Rainbow" would take on the detective. Well, Pynchon wouldn't be Pynchon if he hadn't invented his own genre here too - psychedelic noir. His hero, private detective Doc Sportello, at times floating out of a stupefying haze, observes the decline of the era of universal love and the onset of the age of paranoia. And when a former girlfriend named Shasta suddenly returns to his life with a story about the impending kidnapping of real estate developer magnate Mickey Volkmann, Doc becomes entangled in a devious web of cross-interests, unobvious clues, and false trails. And what is the ubiquitous Golden Fang - a tax evasion scheme devised by dentists, an Asian drug cartel, or something far more sinister...? In 2014, Paul Thomas Anderson - one of the foremost visionaries of modern cinema, director of such films as Boogie Nights and Magnolia, Oil and The Master, Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza - carefully brought Inherent Vice to the big screen; for the first time ever, Pynchon's work lent itself to a film adaptation. The film, nominated for two Oscars, starred Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio del Toro, Joanna Newsom and others.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Big Novel