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Pynchon, Thomas (1937-....). Auteur

Edité par Vintage Books. GB - 2000

Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence, 'a screaming comes across the sky', heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. Gravity's Rainbow is never a single story, but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more - and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. It is a blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes and among the most important novels of our time.
Capable de prédire le lieu des bombardements qui ravagent Londres grâce à de fulgurantes érections, Tyrone Slothrop suscite l'intérêt de tous les scientifiques alliés. Mais plutôt que de mettre sa libido au service de l'effort de guerre, celui-ci préfère parcourir l'Europe en quête de ses origines, croisant le chemin de barbouzes kirghizes, de commandants coprophages et de kamikazes comiques...

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