L' arcobaleno della gravità

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A MAN IN WW2 HE GETS ERECTIONS.

‘ What is the real nature of control? ’ From the first sentence of Pynchon’s National Book Award winning novel, Gravity’s Rainbow , the Reader is transplanted into a threatening world where death strikes first, the cause second. It is a world of frightening realism and comic absurdity, all fueled throu Leggi tutto

Gravity's Rainbow is a rocket launched into the zenith of the literary sky… 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 protago Leggi tutto

[August 2020] Rereading this now in my Pulitzer quest. Wow, as amazingly confusing as the first time around! This is of course the Pynchon pinnacle, the summit of his fame, the cornerstone of his work. So much so that he fell silent for about 14 years after writing it (leading me to wonder if DeLillo Leggi tutto

ITS ABOUT A SECRET ROCKET PROJECT IN WW II BUT I THINK SOME OF IT IS A DREAM BECAUSE IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE. THE AUTHOR IS VERY CLEVER.

You know that very brief moment after you wake up in the morning? That moment when you're not sleeping but you're not yet awake. You kind of know what's going but you're not fully aware. You're in conciousness limbo. When you read Gravity's Rainbow you fall into this conciousness limbo. You read the Leggi tutto

I dallied with the idea of writing a very short review, saying pithy things like: "I'm glad that's over." or: "Fuck." OR should I go more eloquent: "I'm going to set this day as an anniversary to commemorate why I'll never read this book again." But I think I'll just state that I think I just got post-mo Leggi tutto

Prologue "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now." Genesis In the beginning was the earth, and above the earth was the sky. The earth consisted of land and water. The sky consisted of air, the moon, the sun and the stars in the heavens. The la Leggi tutto