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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ɒ n / PIN-chon, [1] [2] commonly / ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ən / PIN-chən; [3] born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes , including history , music , science , and ...
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ɒ n / PIN-chon, commonly / ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ən / PIN-chən; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics.
Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 [ edit ] Published in 1965, The Crying of Lot 49 is a very short metaphysical detective novel written by the American novelist Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. Pynchon is famous for the density and complexity of his science fictions.
Against the Day is an epic historical novel by Thomas Pynchon, published on November 21, 2006. [1] The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, Africa and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all ...
The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon by David Seed Macmillan Press: Hirsch, a graduate student, wrote to Pynchon about material in chapter 9 of V. related to historical South West Africa. [89] Pynchon replied to Hirsch in a letter dated January 8, 1969, which was published in 1988 as an appendix to The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas ...
Vineland is a 1990 [a] novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's reelection. [6] Through flashbacks by its characters, who have lived the sixties in their youth, the story accounts for the free spirit of rebellion of that decade, and describes the traits of the "fascistic Nixonian repression" and the War on Drugs that ...
Pynchon is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Thomas Pynchon (born 1937), American novelist; George M. Pynchon (1862–1940), American yacht racer; William Pynchon (1590–1662), English colonial settler and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts
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