Gravity's Rainbow
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780670003747 (0670003743)
Publish date: February 14th 1973
Publisher: The Viking Press
Pages no: 760
Edition language: English
There once was a man with erectionsThat helped him with rocket detections.Whenever they fellHis penis would swellLeading to screwball secret spy actions.So, that was that. My first Pynchon.Story-wise, I didn't find it „incomprehensible“ or even „hard to get“. I probably didn't understand all the ref...
“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V...
This is not a pleasurable read. This is not an unpleasurable read. This is a mind-dissolving read.The absurd coincidence of the Germans’ V-2 rocket bombings locations during World War II and Tyrone Slothrop’s mapping of sexual scores is merely the tip of the iceberg of the monumental illogicality th...
As I read more and more of the "Great Books" I become more and more comfortable with rejecting received opinion about the relative merits of books. Gravity's Rainbow is a book that is regularly given as a candidate for best book written after World War II. While the book is exceptionally clever, I...
As massively bleak, confusing, tricky, hostile and disgusting as it is, Gravity's Rainbow stands out as one of the most complete, majestic and ambitious books ever written, a masterpiece of narrative architecture, a feast of literary extravaganza, a black philosophical declaration on humankind and h...
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