This is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in
postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more
than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of
America's engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In
chapters that address the full range of Pynchon's career, from his
earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent
work, Inherent Vice, this book offers highly accessible and
detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to
understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of
postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon's relationship to
literary history, his engagement with discourses of science and
utopianism, his interrogation of imperialism, and his preoccupation
with the paranoid sensibility. Invaluable to Pynchon scholars and
to everyone working in the field of contemporary American fiction,
this study explores how Pynchon's complex narratives work both as
exuberant examples of formal experimentation and as serious
interventions in the political health of the nation.
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