Hello, bibliophilic, literature-loving Kossacks! Timmyk here with the latest installment of Tuesday’s Literature for Kossacks series. Up this week is American novelist Thomas Pynchon (b. 8 May 1937–), a titan of late twentieth-century postmodern literature, whose masterpiece, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), is a central document of our times, a landmark work of art, a serious candidate for The Great American Novel, an epic encyclopedia, etc.: like other great works, there really aren’t enough superlatives to describe its presence, its totalizing energies, its ambition and scope, its formal innovation, and its cultish, totemic status among critics and fans.
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