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   Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon that explores the themes of history, science, metaphysics, and paranoia. It follows the quest of several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device, the Schwarzgerät, in a V-2 rocket.

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3. www.goodreads.com › en › bookGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon | Goodreads

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   Feb 28, 1973 · A postmodern epic novel that explores the impact of technology and history on society. Read 4,278 reviews, 307 quotes, and 44,452 ratings from the world's largest community for readers.

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   Gravity's Rainbow By Thomas Pynchon. n America in the late 1950's and early 1960's there appeared a series of comic apocalyptic novels organized around picaresque anti-heroes or schlemiels and filled with what came to be called black humor. Writers like Joseph Heller ("Catch-22"), John Barth ("The Sot-Weed Factor"), Bruce Jay Friedman ("Stern ...

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   Is 'gravity's Rainbow' still relevant today?

   • Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Gravity’s Rainbow,” a half century old today, has never seemed more relevant. PUBLISHED 50 YEARS AGO today, Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is very much an example of what my students would call an “old” novel. To me, though, it feels as fresh and new as the day it was born.

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   Is gravity's Rainbow a postmodern epic?

   • Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative, and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

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   Is gravity's Rainbow a historical novel?

   • Almost everything in Gravity’s Rainbow conveys some sort of implication about the shape and nature of modern Western — and even world — history. But Gravity’s Rainbow is a historical novel in a far more profound way than simply because its story is principally set in the past: it also comments on the fundamental nature of history itself.

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   What is the theme of gravity's Rainbow?

   • "Gravity's Rainbow" is bonecrushingly dense, compulsively elaborate, silly, obscene, funny, tragic, pastoral, historical, philosophical, poetic, grindingly dull, inspired, horrific, cold, bloated, beached and blasted. It could have been titled "V-2." In the Paris 1913 section of "V." there is a passage that states a major theme in Pynchon's work.

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   Jan 20, 2012 · Gravity's Rainbow is picaresque, enigmatic, obscene and labyrinthine. It is all things postmodern tumbled in the huge motley heap. They say that amongst the more than four hundred of characters in the novel there is no protagonist. Well, there is a protagonist: it is the ominous SG-00000 rocket – an epicenter of evil, a mysterious artifact ...

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   Jul 17, 2024 · Gravity’s Rainbow, novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. The sprawling narrative comprises numerous threads having to do either directly or tangentially with the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II. Lieut. Tyrone Slothrop is an American

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   Feb 28, 2023 · But Gravity’s Rainbow is a historical novel in a far more profound way than simply because its story is principally set in the past: it also comments on the fundamental nature of history itself ...

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    Jun 13, 2012 · Books. Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon. Penguin, Jun 13, 2012 - Fiction - 768 pages. Winner of the 1974 National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky. . .”. A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on ...