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Loading... A "Gravity's Rainbow" Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novelby Steven C. Weisenburger
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Little else to add that others haven’t, suffice to say that you would be ill advised to tackle the tome that is Gravity’s Rainbow without it. ( ) Weisenburger provides an analysis, virtually line-by-line, of the dense collection of references and allusions crammed into Gravity’s Rainbow. If you’re more patient than I, you could save the book for a second reading but I get frustrated when a book is confusing me and Weisenburger frequently came to the rescue. If you are going to use the guide, and I would recommend it, be sure not to read about a section until you have finished it because there are plenty of spoilers. Read the introduction last of all. Full review: http://www.26books.com/?p=549 no reviews | add a review
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Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century." No library descriptions found. |
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