Thomas Pynchon's postmodern epic Gravity's Rainbow at 50
- Written by: Julian Murphet, Jury Professor of English and Language and Literature, University of Adelaide
Wikimedia Commons.Books age at variable rates. Some, indexed to topicalities with mayfly longevities, are decrepit before they’re published. Others, lively and seductive on first appearance, are dry husks a decade later. More durable works may still feel noble a century hence, if suspended in aspic.
The rarest, bristling with baffling arcana...
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