1st Edition

Thomas Pynchon

By Tony Tanner Copyright 1982
98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulness and experimentation and wealth of allusion, to the work of James Joyce. Aspects of history, psychology, technology and science, cultural and... Read more

General Editors’ Preface.  Acknowledgements.  A Note on the Texts.  1. Thomas Pynchon and the Death of the Author  2. Early Short Fiction  3. V.  4. The Crying of Lot 49  5. Gravity’s Rainbow.  Notes.  Bibliography.

Biography

Tony Tanner