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Thomas Pynchon

Teoksen Huuto 49 tekijä

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Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, New York on May 8, 1937. In 1959 he graduated with a B.A. in English from Cornell, where he had taken Vladimir Nabokov's famous course in modern literature after studying engineering physics and serving in the U.S. Navy for two years. He worked as a technical näytä lisää writer at Boeing for two and a half years. Pynchon won the Faulkner First Novel Award for V. in 1963, and in The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), again his symbolism and commentary on the United States and human isolation have been praised as intricate and masterly, though some reviewers found it to be maddeningly dense. With this book Pynchon won the Rosenthal Foundation Award. Gravity's Rainbow, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1974, is in part a fictional elegy and meditation on death and an encyclopedic work that jumps through time. Pynchon has also written numerous essays, reviews, and introductions, plus the fictional works Slow Learner, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, and Inherent Vice. His title Bleeding Edge made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2013. He is famous for his reclusive nature, although he has made several animated appearances on The Simpsons television series. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

Huuto 49 (1966) 10,971 kappaletta
Painovoiman sateenkaari (1973) 10,691 kappaletta
V. (1963) 5,165 kappaletta
Mason & Dixon (1997) 4,596 kappaletta
Vineland (1990) 4,076 kappaletta
Against the Day (2006) 3,160 kappaletta
Inherent Vice (2009) 2,969 kappaletta
Bleeding Edge (2013) 1,608 kappaletta
Slow Learner (1984) 1,472 kappaletta
Deadly Sins (1994) — Avustaja — 83 kappaletta
The secret integration (1980) 45 kappaletta
Low-lands (1978) 41 kappaletta
Mortality and Mercy in Vienna (1976) 37 kappaletta
Entropy {story} (1960) 32 kappaletta
The Small Rain (1982) 18 kappaletta

Associated Works

Vuonna 1984 (1949) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset81,469 kappaletta
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966) — Johdanto, eräät painokset1,004 kappaletta
Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Avustaja — 277 kappaletta
Inherent Vice [2014 film] (2014) — Original book — 94 kappaletta
Unknown California (1985) — Avustaja — 41 kappaletta
The Best American Short Stories 1961 (1961) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Best modern short stories (1965) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
The Noble Savage 3 (1961) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
Mondaugen — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Aerospace Safety (1960-12 - Vol 16 No 12) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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Inherent Vice, Pynchon Pandæmonium (elokuu 2022)
Group Read, April 2019: Vineland, 1001 Books to read before you die (toukokuu 2019)
The Crying of Lot 49, Someone explain it to me... (maaliskuu 2017)
Club Read 2013 : Kesbooks reading plan, Club Read 2013 (kesäkuu 2013)

Kirja-arvosteluja

Suomalaisessa laitoksessa (2014) ovat mukana oivalliset jälkisanat, jotka on kirjoittanut Tiina Käkelä-Puumala. Suosittelen aloittamaan luku-urakan juuri jälkisanoista, sillä niistä saa edes hiukan osviittaa Pynchonin erikoiseen maailmaan. En tällä ensi yrittämällä jaksanut lukea teosta edes puoliväliin saakka, vaikka teksti kieltämättä on välillä huikeaa.
 
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