Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture employs the
revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist
politics of Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and
elucidates Pynchon's commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the
New Left and the Black Panther Party and on such movements as the
psychedelic movement and the women's movement, drawing out points
of critique to build a picture of a complex countercultural
sensibility at work in Pynchon's fiction. In emphasising the
subtleties of Pynchon's responses to counterculture, Freer
clarifies his importance as an intellectually rigorous political
philosopher. She further suggests that, like the graffiti in
Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon creates texts that are 'revealed in
order to be thought about, expanded on, translated into action by
the people', his early attraction to core countercultural values
growing into a conscious, politically motivated writing project
that reaches its most mature expression in Against the Day.
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