Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Vineland (1990), Mason & Dixon (1997), and Against the Day (2006).
Pynchon is regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Both his fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, styles, and themes, including (but not limited to) the fields of history, science and mathematics. Pynchon is also known for his avoidance of personal publicity: very few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumours about his location and identity have been circulated since the 1960's.
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.
拍卖第49批 The Crying of Lot 49 上海译文 1989 林疑今 Thomas Pynchon的这本小说,令我看完了油然而生拿它作毕业论文的冲动,象征主义,黑色幽默,百科全书式的写法,还有无处不在的物理学的幽灵,从美国的地下邮政系统到古典戏剧再到麦克斯韦的妖精,热力学第二定律在每...
评分初读品钦还是大学时期。当时听说品钦的《万有引力之虹》是史上最难读的小说,恰好图书馆又有,于是这本808页的书就在我背包放了一个月,虽然现在小说的内容基本上都忘却了,但书的重量却还清楚记得。 808页,故事线索多,人物多还好办,最多做个笔记就可以搞清楚,就...
评分这是第二次尝试品钦,家里还躺着一本中学时买了没能读完的灰色的一本《葡萄园》。 觉得很遗憾,即使是第二次接触品钦,还是入门级的拍卖,我都不能很好地抓住和理解。阅读体验很有意思,是一种随时随地容易涣散失神,但又难免会被拉回来反复琢磨的过程,本质是折磨人的,但竟然...
评分 评分初读品钦还是大学时期。当时听说品钦的《万有引力之虹》是史上最难读的小说,恰好图书馆又有,于是这本808页的书就在我背包放了一个月,虽然现在小说的内容基本上都忘却了,但书的重量却还清楚记得。 808页,故事线索多,人物多还好办,最多做个笔记就可以搞清楚,就...
看完才觉得有点意思。。。
评分看完才觉得有点意思。。。
评分finally finished reading this confusing book which created great frustration, but the magic thing is after the stream of frustration there came a kind of appreciation. i liked it!!
评分瞎涂八涂,也成经典。品钦日后有些惭愧地说,写这书时忘了一切之前学到的东西——看来连品钦自己都没意识到,原来他已进入传说中大师的境界了……
评分和着blue velvet一饮而尽
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