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The Crying of Lot 49
novel by Pynchon
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American literature
- In American literature: Realism and metafiction
(1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), and Gravity’s Rainbow (1973). The underlying assumption of Pynchon’s fiction was the inevitability of entropy—i.e., the disintegration of physical and moral energy. Pynchon’s technique was later to influence writers as different as Don DeLillo and Paul Auster. In The…
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discussed in biography
- In Thomas Pynchon
In his next book, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Pynchon described a woman’s strange quest to discover the mysterious, conspiratorial Tristero System in a futuristic world of closed societies. The novel serves as a condemnation of modern industrialization.
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