GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

Like what I do? Feel free to buy me a coffee: Paperback, 776 pages Published 2006 by Penguin Books (first published 1973) ISBN: 978-0143039945 Table of Contents: Introduction 00:00 Ten Assertions 4:22 Re-reading’s Merits 6:58 Invitation to Post 12:52 Attempt to Sum Up 13:54 Literature Review 24:46 Incoming Mail 2:02:31 First Episode Analysis 2:03:54 Journey to the End of My Reading Notes 2:30:50 Parting Thoughts 3:28:32 #bookreview #leafbyleaf #gravitysrainbow #thomaspynchon LIST OF SECONDARY REFERENCES USED 1. American Fictions 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Evaluation by Frederick R. Karl 2. A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon’s Novel by Steven Weisenburger 3. The Style of Connectedness: Gravity’s Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon by Thomas Moore 4. The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention by David Letzler 5. Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon by Stefan Mattessich 6. The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon by William M. Plater 7. Gravity’s Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom by Luc Herman & Steven Weisenburger 8. Pynchon’s Mythography: An Approach to Gravity’s Rainbow by Kathryn Hume 9. The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction by Tom LeClair 10. Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History by David Cowart 11. Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion by David Cowart 12. Pynchon: The Voice of Ambiguity by Thomas H. Schaub 13. Pynchon’s Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text by Hanjo Berressem 14. The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon by David Seed 15. Signs and Symptoms: Thomas Pynchon and the Contemporary World by Peter L. Cooper 16. Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon by Molly Hite 17. The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon by Brian Stonehill 18. Thomas Pynchon: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom 19. The Gnostic Pynchon by Dwight Eddins Die frau im mond by Frtiz Lang (1929):