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Pynchon and Relativity - Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon's Later Novels (Hardcover)
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Pynchon and Relativity - Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon's Later Novels (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Literary Studies
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Is time an illusion? Do past, present, and future co-exist in a
timeless whole, or are our experiences of change and duration the
reality of time? Thomas Pynchon's writing has always been
interested in the interplay of these two ways of thinking about
time, but his recent fiction has also taken on the task of
imaginatively responding to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which
in the early years of the twentieth century renewed this ancient
debate. In this book, Simon deBourcier looks in detail at Pynchon's
2006 novel Against the Day, which is set during the period in which
Einstein published his world-changing theory, and 1997's Mason
& Dixon, set in the eighteenth century when Isaac Newton's
picture of a world governed by absolute space and time was
unchallenged. By comparing these two novels, Pynchon and Relativity
shows that Pynchon's tales of loss, haunting, and time travel are
informed by a sophisticated awareness of the philosophical
implications of Relativity. The book goes on to examine the
consequences of this for our reading of Pynchon's other work.
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