|
|
Article: Fast Learner: the typescript of Pynchon's V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin.
- Article from:
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
"Scripts're in the top drawer."
But they were all purple, Dittoed--worn, torn, stained with coffee.
Nothing else in the drawer. "Hey.... Where's the original? What did
you make these copies from?" (Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 77-78)
In the spring of 2001, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced its "acquisition of the corrected typescript to Thomas Pynchon's first novel, V. [1963]," along with eight letters written by Pynchon to Faith and Kirkpatrick Sale between 1960 and 1964 (Stephen Smith). Until now, critics have not had much apart from Pynchon's novels and stories to work on or with: the ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Thomas Pynchon
Encyclopedia of World Biography;
700+ words
...Thomas Pynchon The American novelist Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) is best known for V., The Crying of Lot 49 ... erudition and parodistic, labyrinthine plots. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. was born in Glen Cove, New York, on May 8, 1937 ...
|
|