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time period. In reading the work of Thomas Pynchon, an author associated with the
postmodernism, and whose work was published during WWII. One can find relevant issues and
themes. Additionally Thomas Pynchon legacy has had a lasting impact on my readers,
School in Oyster Bay was where he graduated high school. After he graduated from high school,
Thomas Pynchon continued to study engineering physics at Cornell University. However, he left
and served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell
University.
In 1964, his application to study mathematics as a graduate student at the University of
California, Berkeley was turned down. In 1966 Pynchon wrote a first-hand report on the
aftermath and legacy of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles. The article was published in the New
York Times Magazine Wikipedia. After he had publishing several short stories, he began
composing the novels. "Thomas Pynchon's willingness to address the most important cultural
and social issues makes him an important writer" Stark. Moreover "Pynchon's first publication
was a short story, Mortality and Mercy in Vienna" Stark. His novel best known was The Crying
of Lot.
Equally important The Crying of Lot 49, Vine lane, and Gravity's Rainbow are his major
work. The study of student "The Crying of Lot 49 is one of the most deceptive--as well as one of
the most brilliant [books]--to have appeared since [World War II]." A wealth of references to
science and technology and to obscure historical events, his books dwelling on the detritus of
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American society and culture are contains in his novel. The novel is brilliant because the novel
related to what had happened in World War II. Moreover there are more about what the author
wants us to know, that is "Readers should be aware that there are sexual references and scenes as
well as drug and alcohol used throughout the book, and the novel may not be suitable for
younger readers for a variety of reasons" Gale, and "The Crying of Lot 49 offers a rich and
ultimately rewarding reading experience" Gale. One of the important to know is "The plot of The
Crying of Lot 49 has an unlikely start and becomes increasingly chaotic throughout the book."
Gale.
Also another thing that the novel significance about is "Thomas Pynchon opens Gravitys
Rainbow (1973) with the experience of a rocket-bomb that goes beyond Adams prediction"
Richard. Furthermore Gravitys Rainbow is one of the landmarks of American fiction Gale. In
the same fashion the novel take place the last month of World War II. Most of his novels are
included War World II. Further he published his books around that time of period. That makes
audience interested and signified. Some scholars have hailed it as the greatest American post
World War II novel, and it has similarly been described as literally an anthology of postmodernist
themes and devices Wikipedia. The novel Gravitys Rainbow shared the 1974 National Book
Award. Furthermore, That same year, the Pulitzer Prize fiction panel unanimously
Thomas Pynchon became known as one of progenitors of cyberpunk fiction in 1987. His books
and every novel led to hypertext fiction movement of the 1990s. In the same manner, "In
Pynchon, with a few critical exceptions, repetition tends to enforce not difference, but identity:
such a way of reading can of course seem fatalistic or paranoid, but it sometimes offers a way to
forge liberating connections" Richard said, Pynchon's characters often imagine that they are
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being controlled by unseen historical forces, immanent interventions, and inexplicable repetitions
and patterns. Also Connection in Pynchon itself often functions as a form of doubling,
transcendental writing--which I argue provides a context for virtually Pynchon's entire body of
Moreover, He is almost a mathematician of prose, who calculates the least and the greatest
stress each word and line, each pun and ambiguity, can bear, and applies his knowledge supple
diction can first treat of a painful and delicate love scene and then roar, without pause, into the
sound and echoes of a drugged and drunken orgy. The way he wrote his novels, short stories,
books, even The New Yorker or Poet makes people interested. Consequently, Pynchon is
transcendental in numerous contexts, but most of all through his ascription of will and sentience
to the world Richard Such pronouncements are part of Pynchon's larger transcendental, and
about War. Furthermore, the most I like about him is the writing style that he use when he wrote
his novels or short stories. Many authors and readers are influence by his books. Unlike others
authors I learned, he is the one who pushing himself to be an author, and successful man. These
what I really like about him and interested about. Finally, these are what Ive learned about
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"Overview: Gravity's Rainbow." Novels for Students. Ed. Sara Constantakis. Vol. 23. Detroit:
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Stark, John. "Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon, (Jr.)." American Novelists Since World War II: First
Series. Ed. Jeffrey Helterman and Richard Layman. Detroit: Gale, 1978. N. pag.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 2. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Feb. 2016.