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Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8,1937 in Glen Cove. Long Island, New York. He started his writing career in his high school days, published his early stories in a series of magazines, came to fame in 1963 with his first novel, V., and has since been consistently praised as one of the major American writers of all times. The papers in this volume address all of Thomas Pynchon’s works to date, from his earliest production in Voice of the Hamster to Inherent Vice. The collection brings together fifteen specialists from three conti­nents-America. Australia and Europe. They contribute to the current debates on Pynchon’s supposed ’post modernism, either by revitaliz­ing established postmodern critical perspectives and applying them to seldom read texts, or by reappraising Pynchon’s fiction within broader literary and philosophical contexts. Though individual approaches vary, common concerns are expressed, among which a marked interest in the reappraisal of ethical and political dimensions, as well as a focus on the questions of return and the potential emergence of the new out of the old.

Literature American --- Literature (General) --- politique --- éthique --- Thomas Pynchon --- postmodernisme --- littérature américaine contemporaine --- roman historiographique --- oeuvres de jeunesse --- post-mimétique --- contemporary American fiction --- postmodernism --- historiographic fiction --- politics --- ethics --- early works --- post-mimetic

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Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America's engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon's career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon's relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses of science and utopianism, his interrogation of imperialism and his preoccupation with the paranoid sensibility. Invaluable to Pynchon scholars and to everyone working in the field of contemporary American fiction, this study explores how Pynchon's complex narratives work both as exuberant examples of formal experimentation and as serious interventions in the political health of the nation.

Pynchon, Thomas --- Criticism and interpretation --- Pinchon, Tomas --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pynchon, Thomas. --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- Against the Day. --- American postmodernity. --- Gravity's Rainbow. --- Mason &Dixon. --- Slow Learner. --- The Crying of Lot 49. --- The Secret Integration Entropy. --- Thomas Pynchon. --- United States' political history. --- Vineland. --- aporia. --- constraint. --- eighteenth-century colonial culture. --- forms of relationship. --- freedom. --- modernism. --- paranoid sensibility.