Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)

When Oedipa Maas is named as the executor of her late lover's will, she discovers that his estate is mysteriously connected with an underground organization

The Crying of Lot 49

Reluctantly investigating a kidnapping threat against his ex-girlfriend's billionaire beau, Doc Sportello tackles a bizarre tangle of nefarious characters before stumbling on a mysterious entity that may actually be a tax shelter for a dental group.

Inherent Vice

An average mother of two working in investigation fraud gets drawn into a shady and eccentric underworld after looking into the finances of a billionaire computer geek in this new novel from the author of V and Gravity's Rainbow.

Bleeding Edge

Roman

Vineland

'The greatest, wildest author of his generation' Guardian We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn't really begin to cover it. Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish, sinister, mysterious, absurd, compulsive netherworld. As the Financial Times said, 'you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel.' Forty years since publication, Gravity's Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral.

Gravity's Rainbow

Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing. The collection consists of five short stories- 'The Small Rain', 'Lowlands', 'Entropy', 'Under the Rose', and 'The Secret Integration', as well as an introduction written by Pynchon himself for the 1984 publication. The five stories were originally published individually in various literary magazines but in 1984, after Pynchon had achieved greater recognition, Slow Learner was published to collect and copyright the stories into one volume. The introduction also offers a rare insight into Pynchon's own views on his work and influences.

Early Stories

Slow Learner

The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.

O Leilão do Lote 49

Amerikanischer Autor, geb. 1937. - Das Leben als Parabel. Parabelförmig ist die Flugbahn zwischen zwei Punkten, ist die Flugbahn der deutschen V-Waffen im Zweiten Weltkrieg, deren Entwicklung und Einsatz nur einen der zahllosen Handlungsstränge dieses Pandämoniums darstellen. Die Rakete als Sinnbild besiegter Schwerkraft, aber auch hybrider Männlichkeit mit ihren katastrophalen Auswirkungen, lenkt den Blick des Lesers durch eine unabsehbare Fülle von Ereignissen

Die Enden der Parabel

L'arcobaleno della gravità

The Secret Integration

Paulo Henriques Britto

Obra-prima de Thomas Pynchon (que não se deixa fotografar nem dá entrevista), O arco-íris da gravidade foi desde o seu lançamento (1973) saudado como uma das maiores realizações da ficção em língua inglesa de nossos tempos. É Uma narrativa picaresca, ambientada na Europa devastada do final da Segunda Guerra e nos primeiros momentos do pós-guerra. A Linguagem e a técnica narrativa evocam o clima da contracultura norte-americana dos anos 60 e 70 - drogas, rebelião, oposição à guerra do Vietnã. O Estilo caracteriza-se pelo uso das mais variadas técnicas da cultura de massas - o desenho animado, o filme B, a história em quadrinhos, o livro pornográfico - e aproveita o jargão científico e tecnológico com que os meios de comunicação nos familiarizam cada vez mais. NArrativa pós-modernista que proporciona o prazer da imersão total num universo completo, tal como os grandes romances clássicos, O arco-íris da gravidade é uma das maiores obras de ficção em língua inglesa da segunda metade de nosso século.

Arco-íris da gravidade

Vício Intrínseco

Natürliche Mängel

Meanwhile, Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-fact occurrences occur. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be

Against the Day

Tyrone Slothrop, un militar estadounidense que trabaja para la inteligencia aliada en Londres, en 1944, padece un grave problema: siempre que cae una de las bombas autopropulsadas alemanas V-2, el tiene una ereccion. De nino, Slothrop fue sometido a experimentos pavlovianos por el profesor Laszlo Jamf, un loco cientifico aleman que ahora trabaja para los nazis. Laszlo invento el Imipolex G, un plastico que se utilizara para el aislamiento de los cohetes, y condiciono las partes pudendas de Tyrone para que respondieran a la presencia de ese nuevo plastico. Ahora, ya adulto, nuestro protagonista no puede evitar sentir la presencia del Imipolex en las bombas, y sus superiores militares estan investigandolo. En una Alemania devastada por la guerra, Tyrone se enfrenta a legiones de extranos enemigos, de los que tendra que huir haciendo cabriolas. TAPA RUSTICA

El Arco Iris De Gravedad / Gravity's Rainbow

A Time magazine and New York Times Best Book of the Year Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. Unreflectively entangled in crimes of demarcation, Mason and Dixon take us along on a grand tour of the Enlightenment’s dark hemisphere, from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back to England, into the shadowy yet redemptive turns of their later lives, through incongruities in conscience, parallaxes of personality, tales of questionable altitude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be lost. Along the way they encounter a plentiful cast of characters, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Samuel Johnson, as well as a Chinese feng shui master, a Swedish irredentist, a talking dog, and a robot duck. The quarrelsome, daring, mismatched pair—Mason as melancholy and Gothic as Dixon is cheerful and pre-Romantic—pursues a linear narrative of irregular lives, observing, and managing to participate in the many occasions of madness presented them by the Age of Reason.

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