Thomas Pynchon—alongside Salinger, the "great American recluse," one of the greatest writers of world literature of the 20th and now the 21st century—was, after his very first publications, unanimously recognized as a classic on par with Nabokov, Joyce, and Borges. His *Gravity's Rainbow* is the definitive post-war novel of world literature, having absorbed the second half of the 20th century just as Joyce’s *Ulysses* absorbed the first. It is a grand postmodern epic and caustic satire, a tragedy multiplied by farce, and a most radical anti-war statement, a countercultural bible and an explosive mixture of irony and conspiracy theory; ultimately, it is a unique reading experience and a surreal travelogue through the underworld of our collective past. Without *Gravity's Rainbow*, there would be neither Umberto Eco's *Foucault's Pendulum* nor the entirety of cyberpunk, and the landscape of contemporary literature itself would be entirely different. For nearly half a century, new meanings have been discovered in this book every day, but the one true reading remains, fortunately, unattainable. Having received the primary American literary honor—the U.S. National Book Award—nominated for a dozen other prestigious prizes, and having sparked an avalanche of resignations among esteemed juries due to its radicalism, *Gravity's Rainbow* remains beyond any scale of assessment and outside of time.
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Translation: Maxim Nemtsov, Anastasia Gryzunova
Pages: 928 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 217x148x36 mm
Series: Foreign Literature. Big Books
