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32. Gravity’s rainbow.
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April 2010
Pynchon, Thomas
NY: Viking Press, 1973
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This God-forsaken book.
Pynchon is undoubtedly a genius. The sheer power, reach and strength of his mind shines like a fever all over this novel. The overall picture: of a technology — the Rocket — conceived by an Ancient, Otherworldly Evil, and unleashed on us as the final and utter harbinger of Death, that will rend the veil and submit us forever and unceasingly to their cruel designs.
But I doubt I will ever submit myself to this vision again. Pynchon obviously thinks we’re screwed. Or, if he intended any reserve of hope for us, preterite, passed over, it was swallowed whole by the Rocket in my reading of this novel. This novel is Death.
Previous Book: 31. A reader’s guide to Gravity’s rainbow. Next Book: 33. The big sleep; Farewell, my lovely.
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