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Article: The religious and political vision of Pynchon's Against the Day.
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- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Since V. appeared in 1963, Thomas Pynchon has exemplified American postmodernism, and Against the Day carries on the process of undercutting our ontological assumptions and denying us the stability that would support claims of truth or authenticity. Its 1085 pages, its several hundred characters, and its settings--stretching from Colorado to New Haven to Venice to Siberia--combine to deny us the comfort of mastering this textual mini-world. In its religion and politics, however, this book differs from Pynchon's earlier novels. From V. (1963) through Mason &E Dixon (1997), many characters express their own ideologies or moral values, but Pynchon as author rarely pushes his ...
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Article: Thomas Pynchon
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...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 ...
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