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Crying Of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
316 wordsThomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 The Crying of Lot 49 was the second novel written by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1966. This postmodern work of literature is filled with black humor and satire, yet the author manages to incorporate intellectually challenging material. The story begins when Oedipa Maas, a practical but restless woman married to a disk jockey, finds out that she has been made executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a wealthy developer and ex-boyfriend. She goes to San Nar...
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Crying Of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
1,166 wordsIn the 1960 s the American society faced many difficulties and important, sometimes, tragic events, such as Vietnam War, usage of the drugs, especially by youth, problems of communication in the society etc. Exactly these problems are vividly described in the novel The Crying of Lot 49 written by Thomas Pynchon. Many people consider this book to be the best work from those written by the author. There is also the opposite side of readers who do not think like that. However, no one can argue that...
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20 Th Century Thomas Pynchon
1,322 wordsPynchon and Ginsberg (1) The American literature is known to have been affected by the stylistic experimentation, since the last half of 19 th century. There are many socio-political and purely artistic reasons that explain it. The most important of them, in my opinion, is the fact that Marxist theory used to be very popular among left-wing intellectuals, prior to the outbreak of Second World War. After being ideologically suppressed during fifties, Marxism was able to reemerge at the beginning ...
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Crying Of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
312 wordsThomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 The Crying of Lot 49 was the second novel written by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1966. This postmodern work of literature is filled with black humor and satire, yet the author manages to incorporate intellectually challenging material. The story begins when Oedipa Maas, a practical but restless woman married to a disk jockey, finds out that she has been made executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a wealthy developer and ex-boyfriend. She goes to San Nar...
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Boston Little Brown Crying Of Lot 49
1,820 wordsThe philosophy behind all Pynchon novels lies in the synthesis of philosophers and modern physicists. Ludwig Wittgenstein viewed the world as a totality of facts, not of things. 1 This idea can be combined with a physicists view of the world as a clos ed system that tends towards chaos. Pynchon asserts that the measure of the world is its entropy. 2 He extends this metaphor to his fictional world. He envelops the reader, through various means, within the system of The Crying of Lot 49. Pynchon d...
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Crying Of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
312 wordsThomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 The Crying of Lot 49 was the second novel written by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1966. This postmodern work of literature is filled with black humor and satire, yet the author manages to incorporate intellectually challenging material. The story begins when Oedipa Maas, a practical but restless woman married to a disk jockey, finds out that she has been made executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a wealthy developer and ex-boyfriend. She goes to San Nar...
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