The Crying of Lot 49

One of The Atlantic ''s Great American Novels "A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force." -- San Francisco Examiner The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon''s highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.

Relazione

"[A] spectacular tale. . . . The work of a virtuoso with prose. . . . His intricate symbolic order is akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses." - Chicago Tribune
"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes." - New York Times
"A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force." - San Francisco Examiner
"Pynchon is again whispering something in our ear about the meaning of coincidence, the possibility of recurrence in history, and the circularity of time. . . . . The Crying of Lot 49 is one of those mystery novels that can't be solved." - New York Review of Books
"Remarkable. . . . The Crying of Lot 49 resembles metaphysical poetry in the range of its allusions and the curiosity of its creator. Consequently, the book is always surprising." - Washington Post

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas Pynchon
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.01.1986
• EAN: 9780060913076
• ISBN: 978-0-06-091307-6
• Pagine: 160
• Dimensioni: 136 mm x 205 mm x 12 mm
• Serie: HarperPerennial; Harper Perennial; Perennial Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Narrative theme: Politics, Sea stories, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Relating to indigenous peoples, Satirical fiction and parodies, Dystopian and utopian fiction, US South, FICTION: Literary, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Classics, LITERATURE: CLASSICS, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Dystopian, FICTION: Gothic, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Classics