Thomas Pynchon est un auteur américain célébré pour ses œuvres de fiction denses et complexes qui mêlent souvent un vaste éventail de sujets, de styles et de domaines d'intérêt, y compris l'histoire, la science et les mathématiques. Sa prose est louée pour sa profondeur intellectuelle et son virtuosisme littéraire. Pynchon est considéré comme l'un des auteurs contemporains les plus éminents, dont la voix distinctive et l'approche de l'écriture ont laissé une marque indélébile sur la littérature moderne. Son évitement de la publicité personnelle ne fait qu'ajouter à l'intrigue qui entoure sa personnalité énigmatique et son œuvre acclamée.
A New York en 2001, entre l'éclatement de la bulle Internet et l'effondrement des tours jumelles, Maxine, une quadragénaire qui vient de perdre sa licence officielle d'inspectrice des fraudes, est amenée à enquêter sur Gabriel Ice, un magnat du web à l'activité suspecte. Une aventure qui la plonge dans une interzone du web réservée aux seuls initiés.
E tous les carrefours importants, le visage à la moustache noire vous fixait du regard. Il y en avait un sur le mur d'en face. BIG BROTHER VOUS REGARDE, répétait la légende, tandis que le regard des yeux noirs pénétrait les yeux de Winston ..
This reprint of a historical book originally published in 1871 aims to preserve the text for modern readers. Acknowledging the age of the work, it may contain missing pages or lower quality, yet it serves as a valuable resource for those interested in historical literature. The publishing house, Anatiposi, focuses on making such works accessible to ensure they are not forgotten.
The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997 Time Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997 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 re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, "Gravity's Rainbow" is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's "Ulysses" was to the first.
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II, and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military
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.
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
"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes."--New York Times Thomas Pynchon's highly original, postmodernist classic, a satire of American life about a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a seeming international conspiracy. ?When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters--including a teenage rock band called the Paranoids, a right-wing historian and critic of the postal system, and a former child actor with whom she has an affair--and begins to unravel conspiracies she suddenly sees all around her. Written in 1966, The Crying of Lot 49 demonstrates the piquant wit and power of invention that are the hallmarks of Pynchon's acclaimed works. It is the shortest of his novels, and widely held to be the benchmark of this literary lion's career.
"Mortality and Mercy in Vienna," published in 1959, is Thomas Pynchon's second story, notable for not being included in "Slow Learner." The story originated from a writing exercise at Cornell, where Pynchon, after refusing to submit his work on time, continued writing and eventually submitted this piece to Epoch magazine.