Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a 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 com...
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a 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.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best k...
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Vineland (1990), Mason & Dixon (1997), and Against the Day (2006).
Pynchon is regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Both his fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, styles, and themes, including (but not limited to) the fields of history, science and mathematics. Pynchon is also known for his avoidance of personal publicity: very few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumours about his location and identity have been circulated since the 1960's.
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托马斯·品钦 作者
大益文学
译林出版社2014版
穆天宁
Harper Perennial2006版
嘎嘣嘎嘣脆
译林出版社2010版
一曲微茫
译林出版社2010版
路易
译林出版社2010版
0 有用 平先生 2010-07-29 17:01:36
DISORDER!!!! KNOW MORE, GET CONFUSED MORE！
6 有用 momo 2013-07-11 23:17:01
瞎涂八涂，也成经典。品钦日后有些惭愧地说，写这书时忘了一切之前学到的东西——看来连品钦自己都没意识到，原来他已进入传说中大师的境界了……
0 有用 fugue 2023-11-20 06:43:37 美国
"Are you hallucinating yet?" "I'm not hallucinating you are hallucinating!" what a fucking waste of time
0 有用 琴酒 2014-06-14 23:23:23
第三遍读，终于读出了那种飞扬而炫目的才华，和与这才华相匹配的主题的深度。比起来，他的诸多后辈，虽然同样才华横溢，但文本的密度都大大稀释了。配着迷噪听肯定很搭。再读的时候一定要。
0 有用 dotann 2010-03-20 18:51:44
Thomas Pynchon比较短的一本书，很容易读但是不太容易懂，叙事形式让我想起Philip K Dick，当然内容更现实一些，即使有片断迷幻也是精神上的错觉，总结一下，人生就是一场巨大的阴谋。