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I juni 1761 kunde man om vädret tillät det iaktta Venus passera framför solen, som en svart plump mot den ljusa skivan, vilket sker två gånger med några års mellanrum vart hundrade år. De dåtida astronomernas observationer av det sällsynta fenomenet bidrog till att utveckla bl a lantmäterikonsten. Venuspassagen bildar utgångspunkten för Thomas Pynchons nya roman i 1700-talsdräkt, Mason & Dixon (1997), som berättar den vidlyftiga men sanna historien om hur två britter, astronomen Charles Mason och lantmätaren Jeremiah Dixon, med stjärnornas hjälp drog den spikraka gränsen mellan de amerikanska staterna Pennsylvania och Maryland. Genom skogar, över vatten och berg får vi följa denna expedition med svenska skogshuggare i spetsen som banade väg för vetenskapssamhället, vars framfart gick ut över den indianska ursprungsbefolkningen och förutsatte importerade svarta slavar. Den sköna nya värld som Mason och Dixon mäter upp tar vid där den gamla europeiska slutade, just vid den förutvarande svenska kolonin vid Delawareflodens fjordlika mynning, vecklar sedan ut sig över en kontinent, varifrån den så småningom, som en kolonialistisk trestegsraket, kommer att lyfta mot rymden. Denna parabel om upplysningens mörka sidor flödar över som en Pandoras ask: med en hamparökande blivande president, konspirerande jesuiter, geniala kockar, mekaniska ankor och allsköns gengångare; dessutom bjuder Mason & Dixon på några ännu oförbrukade platser, som de försvunna 11 dagarna från kalenderskiftet 1562, eller den ouppmätta och okarterade Delaware-triangeln, som i stil med bokomslagets ö-liknande &-tecken påminner om att det alltid finns något att tillägga & som ett extra tecken i alfabetet, bonustecknet, tegelstensromanens kännemärke, läsandets paradisö.
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UNDER GATSTENARNA - STRANDEN! - Inherent vice, jur. ung. medfödd last, dold skada, dold last, inneboende brist, arvsynd, är Thomas Pynchons högst personliga variation på noir-deckaren. Den utspelar sig som sig bör i Los Angeles, fast inte inte så mycket i asfaltsdjungeln, utan mer på 70-talets surfstränder, och inordnar sig i en informell romantrilogi i övrigt bestående av Buden på nummer 49 och Vineland. Därmed också sagt att det är en Pynchon av fin årgång, VP, vintage Pynchon: 350 sidor fulla av popmusik, påtända hippies, paranoida snutar, post-Manson-syndrom och en riktigt ful fisk till president.
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Discover Thomas Pynchon’s brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic.‘The greatest, wildest author of his generation’ GuardianWe could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to the earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn’t really begin to cover it. Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish, sinister, mysterious, absurd, compulsive netherworld. As The Financial Times said, ‘you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel.’ Forty years since its publication, Gravity’s Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral.
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Oedipa Maas has been made executrix of her former lover’s estate.The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the crying of lot 49.Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 is by far the shortest of Pynchon’s great, dazzling novels – and one of his most iconic.‘The best American novel I have read since the war’ Frank Kermode‘Remarkable... The Crying of Lot 49 resembles metaphysical poetry in the range of its allusions and the curiosity of its creator’ Washington Post
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Den då tjugosexårige Tomas Pynchons nu femtio år gamla debutroman V. för första gången på svenska. V. är en civilisationskritisk romanberättelse med nedslag i olika tider och rum: Kairo 1898, Florens 1899, Paris 1913, tyska Syd-väst Afrika 1922, Malta på 40-talet och under kriget samt New York medan V. skrivs och låter sig väl sammanfattas som svaret på omslagets bildgåta: Vad är det som saknas och vad har vi fått istället?
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The inspiration for One Battle After AnotherThomas Pynchon's wretchedly funny dystopian thriller, sending up the end days of the American dreamVineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc.Full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs, movie spoofs, and illicit sex, Vineland is vintage Pynchon.'That rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years' Salman Rushdie
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"Betyg 5 av 5. Den hemliga integrationen innebär en perfekt introduktion till detta mästerliga författarskap"', Kristofer Flensmarck, BTJ. "Häpnadsväckande bra", Martin Engberg, Göteborgs-Posten. Thomas Pynchons kortroman Den hemliga integrationen i nyöversättning av Andreas Vesterlund. Thomas Pynchons kortroman Den hemliga integrationen i nyöversättning av Andreas Vesterlund. Det är en glädje och en ära för Bakhåll att få publicera en bok av den ständigt Nobelpristippade Thomas Pynchon. Dock medger kontraktet inte att vår presentation av boken sammanfattar vad den handlar om. Vi får inte heller berätta om Pynchon som person och vi får inte publicera något foto på honom. Följande rader är tillåten information: Den hemliga integrationen (The Secret Integration) publicerades första gången i The Saturday Evening Post 1964, och senare i novellsamlingen Steg för steg. Thomas Pynchon är författare till V.; Buden på nummer 49; Gravitationens regnbåge; Steg för steg; Vineland; Mason & Dixon; Mot dagen; Inneboende brist; och Bleeding Edge. Han tilldelades National Book Award för Gravitationens regnbåge 1974. Thomas Pynchons kortroman Den hemliga integrationen. ISBN 978-91-7742-623-3. Nyöversättning av Andreas Vesterlund. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, mjuka pärmar med flikar, 80 sidor.
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Bleeding Edge är Thomas Pynchons romanversion av händelserna den 11 september. Dessutom handlar den om den digitala världens födslovåndor i de centrala kvarter på Manhattan kring Flatiron Building (med en vacker variation på romantiteln) som då det begav sig kallades Silicon Alley, med alleys med tiden allt mera tänkvärda bibetydelse av återvändsgränd. Hur pass i teknisk framkant IKEA är i sammanhaget är svårt att säga, barstolen Sven spelar dock en viss roll. Bleeding Edge är på många sätt en fortsättning på Pynchons genombrottsroman från 60-talet, Buden på nummer 49; Vineland och Inneboende brist kan i så fall sägas vara stationer på vägen.
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Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; from London to Venice, to Siberia, to Mexico during the revolution; silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. It is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.
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Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin.Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog.It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that 'love' is another of those words going around at the moment, like 'trip' or 'groovy', except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists.In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there...or...if you were there, then you...or, wait, is it...
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is…we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.Thomas Pynchon’s literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, V., but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here. In his introduction to Slow Learner, the author reviews his early work with disarming candour and recalls the American cultural landscape of the early post-Beat era in which the stories were written‘Thomas Pynchon is the Gargantua of modern fiction... In Slow Learner he breaks cover for the first time with a remarkable open-handed portrait of the writer as a young man’ Sunday Times‘An exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers’ New RepublicWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
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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.Winner of the National Book Award.
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Who, where or what is V.?Thomas Pynchon’s debut novel follows discharged Navy sailor Benny Profane as he reconnects with an eclectic collection of artists known as the ‘Whole Sick Crew’, all while Herbert Stencil looks to find the woman described in his father’s diary: ‘V.’Sweeping through sixty years, meandering across the globe and brimming with madcap characters, V. is the bawdy, sometimes sad and frequently hilarious modern classic that introduced the world to the one-of-a-kind brilliance of Thomas Pynchon.'The greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation' Ian Rankin, Guardian'To read V. today is to experience Pynchon anew' New Yorker
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It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her licence got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics - carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people's bank accounts - without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working mum - two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighbourhood - till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler's aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.With occasional excursions into the Deep Web and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channelling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the Internet, not that distant in calendar time but galactically remote from where we've journeyed to since.Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?Hey. Who wants to know?
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Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic - from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revoluntionary America and back, through the stange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.
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A Penguin ClassicWinner 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 sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape.‘A masterpiece… A vintage tale of adventure’ Daily Telegraph‘Swing bands, spies and surreal danger… A wild ride’ i Paper‘Brilliant fun… Rollicking’ Washington PostMilwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement – and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing.By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with.Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.‘Late Pynchon at his finest’ Los Angeles Times‘So alive, so pleasurable’ Megan Nolan‘Grabs you by the collar’ New York Times
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Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.
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A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape.‘A masterpiece… A vintage tale of adventure’ Daily Telegraph‘Swing bands, spies and surreal danger… A wild ride’ i Paper‘Brilliant fun… Rollicking’ Washington PostMilwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement – and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing.By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with.Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.‘Late Pynchon at his finest’ Los Angeles Times‘So alive, so pleasurable’ Megan Nolan‘Grabs you by the collar’ New York Times*A Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and i Paper Book of the Year*
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