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  • 3 people find this helpful
    • At the End of the Rainbow
    • E' successo di nuovo. Finito Gravity's Rainbow (e che finale!) l'unica cosa sensata da fare sembrava quella: ritornare subito dall'inizio per una seconda lettura più consapevole e gustosa. Ma l'appuntamento è solo rimandato.
      Romanzo enorme, dilagante e labirintico eppure miracolosamente coeso ... Continue

      E' successo di nuovo. Finito Gravity's Rainbow (e che finale!) l'unica cosa sensata da fare sembrava quella: ritornare subito dall'inizio per una seconda lettura più consapevole e gustosa. Ma l'appuntamento è solo rimandato.
      Romanzo enorme, dilagante e labirintico eppure miracolosamente coeso (rispetto per esempio all'altro gigante postmoderno con cui viene spesso appaiato - anche se sono profondamente diversi - Infinite Jest, altrettanto affollato di personaggi ed episodi e altrettanto complesso ma molto più frammentario), specchio di una personalità geniale e paranoide e pervaso dallo spirito un divino, glaciale, osceno buffone.

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  • rododactiloseos said on Jun 15, 2007 about the Paperback edition
  • 2 people find this helpful
    • Preciso e terribile come un razzo che percorre il suo arco verso il bersaglio.
      Ribollente, sovraffollato, caotico come la scena di uno sbarco in territorio ostile.
      Elegante ed essenziale come una strada residenziale londinese durante il coprifuoco.
      Eccessivo e sguaiato come una truppa ... Continue

      Preciso e terribile come un razzo che percorre il suo arco verso il bersaglio.
      Ribollente, sovraffollato, caotico come la scena di uno sbarco in territorio ostile.
      Elegante ed essenziale come una strada residenziale londinese durante il coprifuoco.
      Eccessivo e sguaiato come una truppa di soldati ubriachi per dimenticare la paura.

      Ci sono libri che riescono a rendere credibili luoghi e fatti immaginari; questo romanzo riesce nella meno frequente impresa di rendere irreali luoghi esistenti e fatti realmente accaduti.
      Londra, la Germania, il secondo conflitto mondiale vengono scarnificati, distorti, quasi sterilizzati e matematicizzati nell' eleganza inesorabile di una equazione.

      Su tutto domina la padronanza assoluta di Pynchon sulla lingua inglese, mediante la quale inchioda sulla pagina avvenimenti, personaggi, dati scientifici, aforismi, metafore con maestria assoluta.

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  • Garou said on Feb 13, 2008 about the Paperback edition
  • 1 person find this helpful
    • A screaming comes across the sky
    • Musical, paranoia, comedy, London, thriller, Masons, war, irony, incest, physics, Tarots, Africa, friendship, masochism, literature, heresy, love, I Ching, engineering, politics, light bulbs, fantasy, kazoos, psychoanalysis, Germany, Christianity, conspiracy, drugs, jazz, paganism, kamikaze, Kabbala ... Continue

      Musical, paranoia, comedy, London, thriller, Masons, war, irony, incest, physics, Tarots, Africa, friendship, masochism, literature, heresy, love, I Ching, engineering, politics, light bulbs, fantasy, kazoos, psychoanalysis, Germany, Christianity, conspiracy, drugs, jazz, paganism, kamikaze, Kabbalah, genocide, linguistics, quests, U.S.A., psychic, rockets, sex, immortality, Kazaks, philosophy, stream of consciousness, blues, doom...

      This and much more you can find in this incredibly brilliant and encyclopedic book, which will leave you puzzled but with a sense of immensity and genius you'll hardly experience with any other reading.

      I know this is a bit confusing, so for better explanations - from people who write things because they have read and studied this book for a long time now - I refer you to:

      http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com
      and
      http://www.themodernword.com /pynchon/

      Or you could read my commentary in Italian on this book here: http://giulemani.motime.com/post/751264/L%27Arc...

      Good luck!

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  • Zhuliya said on Jul 11, 2009 about the Paperback edition
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    • Wonderful lovely and amazing, like a rainbow in the sky.

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  • Dandani said on Jul 24, 2007 about the Paperback edition| 1 feedback

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Book Description

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its complex and richly layered narrative begins a few months after the German's secret V-2 rocket bombs start falling on London. British intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.

The sprawling, encyclopedic narrative of Gravity's Rainbow -- with its countless subsidiary plots, more than 400 characters, shifting literary styles, and allusions ranging from classical music theory, literature, and military science to comic strips and film -- and the novel's penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. [예스24 제공]

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Paperback 784 Pages
ISBN-10: 0140283382
ISBN-13: 9780140283389
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Pub date: Jan 01, 2000
Dimensions: 21 cm x 14 cm x 5 cm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Mass Market Paperback and Hardcover
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