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Cargando... El arco iris de gravedad (1973)por Thomas Pynchon
  
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 There’s a dirty secret tucked away in Thomas Pynchon’s novels, and it’s this: beyond all the postmodernism and paranoia, the anarchism and socialism, the investigations into global power, the forays into labor politics and feminism and critical race theory, the rocket science, the fourth-dimensional mathematics, the philatelic conspiracies, the ’60s radicalism and everything else that has spawned 70 or 80 monographs, probably twice as many dissertations, and hundreds if not thousands of scholarly essays, his novels are full of cheesy love stories.  Those who have read Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow know that those 700+ pages add up to more than just a novel; it’s an experience. The hundreds of characters are difficult to follow, the plot is nonsensical, sex is graphically depicted, drugs are smoked out of a kazoo and a poor light bulb goes through many humiliating experiences. But the brilliance of Gravity’s Rainbow is not in spite of its oddness but because of it. Like one of his main characters, Pynchon in this book seems almost to be "in love, in sexual love, with his own death." His imagination--for all its glorious power and intelligence--is as limited in its way as Céline's or Jonathan Swift's. His novel is in this sense a work of paranoid genius, a magnificent necropolis that will take its place amidst the grand detritus of our culture. Its teetering structure is greater by far than the many surrounding literary shacks and hovels. But we must look to other writers for food and warmth. Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido enContieneTiene la adaptaciónInspiradoTiene como guía/complementario de referencia aTiene un comentario del texto enTiene como guía de estudio a
Tyrone Slothrop, un militar estadounidense que trabaja para la inteligencia aliada en Londres, en 1944, padece un grave problema: siempre que cae una de las bombas autopropulsadas alemanas V-2, el tiene una ereccion. De nino, Slothrop fue sometido a experimentos pavlovianos por el profesor Laszlo Jamf, un loco cientifico aleman que ahora trabaja para los nazis. Laszlo invento el Imipolex G, un plastico que se utilizara para el aislamiento de los cohetes, y condiciono las partes pudendas de Tyrone para que respondieran a la presencia de ese nuevo plastico. Ahora, ya adulto, nuestro protagonista no puede evitar sentir la presencia del Imipolex en las bombas, y sus superiores militares estan investigandolo. En una Alemania devastada por la guerra, Tyrone se enfrenta a legiones de extranos enemigos, de los que tendra que huir haciendo cabriolas. TAPA RUSTICA No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Club Read 2013 : Kesbooks reading plan
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No queda claro quién es el capitán Ahab, porque son muchos los personajes que están obsesionados con la V-2 nazi.
El argumento no puede ser más sencillo: NO HAY.
Una locura muy gorda. (