Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
This course was available in the past and may be presented again as part of the Open Enrollment curriculum.
In this monumental novel of 1973, heir to Moby-Dick, Ulysses, and To the Lighthouse, Pynchon envisions a world that has surrendered, in the late stages of the second world war, to eruptive cognitive and moral chaos. The writing is tirelessly explosive, exhilarating, hilarious, obscene, and formally liberating. Over Gravity’s Rainbow looms not the spectre of a whale as in Moby Dick but a man-made nemesis, the Rocket, and the military-industrial-scientific complexes that produced it; it also contains the greatest comic Ishmaelean hero in modern American fiction, one Tyrone Slothrop.
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