Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
Naștere	8 mai 1937 Glen Cove, New York, New York
Profesie	scriitor
Naționalitate	SUA
Studii	licență în literatura engleză, Universitatea Cornell, New York
Activitatea literară
Mișcare/curent literar	Postmodernism
Specie literară	literatură experimentală Satiră menipee Umor negru Ficțiune istorică Science fantasy Roman polițist Roman negru
Opere semnificative The Crying of Lot 49 Gravity's Rainbow Mason & Dixon V.
Influențe Jorge Luis Borges, Rilke, Vladimir Nabokov, William Gaddis, William S. Burroughs, Henry Adams
A influențat pe David Foster Wallace, Ian Rankin

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (n. 8 mai 1937, Glen Cove, New York) este un scriitor postmodern american.

După terminarea liceului, Pynchon s-a înscris la Universitatea Cornell din New York, Facultatea de inginerie fizică, dar s-a retras în anul doi pentru a deveni marinar militar. După doi ani s-a întors la Cornell, unde a luat o diplomă în literatura engleză.

Înainte de a deveni scriitor, a lucrat o perioadă de timp la fabrica Boeing Aircraft Corporation din Seattle.

Fire solitară, Pynchon nu s-a lăsat fotografiat aproape niciodată și nu acordǎ interviuri.

Opere

• V. (1963)
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
• Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
• Slow Learner (1984), nuvele
• Vineland (1990)
• Mason & Dixon (1997)
• Against the Day (2006)
• Inherent Vice (2009)

Premii/distincții

• National Books Award (1974)
• MacArthur Fellows Program (1988)

Bibliografie

• Almansi, Guido. L'estetica dell'osceno. Second edition, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 1994.
• Batchelor, J.C. "Thomas Pynchon is not Thomas Pynchon, or, This is End of the Plot Which Has No Name". Soho Weekly News, April 22, 1976.
• Berressem, Hanjo. Pynchon's Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1992. ISBN 978-0-252-01919-7
• Bloom, Harold. Thomas Pynchon (Bloom's Major Novelists). Chelsea House, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7910-7030-7
• Bone, James. "Who the hell is he?" Sunday Times (South Africa), June 7, 1998.
• Chambers, Judith. Thomas Pynchon (Twayne's United States Authors Series). Twayne Publishers, 1992. ISBN 978-0-8057-3960-2
• CNN. "Where's Thomas Pynchon?" June 5, 1997.
• The Complete Review. "Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon" 2006.
• Corey, Irwin. "Transcript of National Book Award acceptance speech", delivered April 18, 1974.
• Duvall, John N. (ed.) Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7914-5193-9
• Ervin, Andrew. "Nobel Oblige". Philadelphia City PaperÄ 14 – September 21, 2000.
• Foster, Don. Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous. Henry Holt, New York, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8050-6357-8
• Fowler, Douglas. A Reader's Guide to Gravity's Rainbow. Ardis Press, 1980. ISBN 978-0-88233-405-9
• Frost, Garrison. "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay". The Aesthetic, 2003.
• Gibbs, Rodney. "A Portrait of the Luddite as a Young Man". Denver Quarterly 39.1, 2004.
• Glenn, Joshua. Pynchon and Homer Boston Globe, October 19, 2003
• Gordon, Andrew. "Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir". The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel, Dalkey Archive Press, 1994 ISBN 978-1-56478-039-3
• Gray, Paul. "Rooms of Their Own". Time, October 18, 1993.
• Grimes, William. "Toni Morrison Is '93 Winner Of Nobel Prize in Literature". New York Times Book Review, October 8, 1993.
• Gussow, Mel. "Pynchon's Letters Nudge His Mask". New York Times, March 4, 1998.
• Hitchens, Christopher. "Salman Rushdie: Even this colossal threat did not work. Life goes on." The Progressive, October 1997. (back)
• Hospital, Janette Turner. Collected Stories 1970 – 1995. University of Queensland Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-7022-2836-0 (back)
• Italie, Hillel. "New Thomas Pynchon Novel is on the way". Associated Press, July 20, 2006.
• Kellogg, Caroline. "New Thomas Pynchon book on the way?". 'Jacket Copy', Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2008.
• Kihss, Peter. "Pulitzer Jurors; His Third Novel". The New York Times, May 8, 1974, p. 38.
• Krafft, John M., Bernard Duyfhuizen & Khachig Tölölyan (eds). Pynchon Notes - Cumulative bibliography, Issues 1 through 54-55, 2008.
• Krämer, Oliver. "Interview mit John M. Krafft, Herausgeber der 'Pynchon Notes'". Sic et Non.
• LaFarge, Paul. "Beach Ploys: Thomas Pynchon revisits the California of too-easy living". Bookforum 16.3, Sept/Oct/Nov 2009. Review of Inherent Vice
• Meerkat Media. "A Meerkat/Thomas Pynchon joint - Inherent Vice Book Trailer". Meerkat Media Arts Collective, Blog Archive, August 4 2009.
• McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction. Methuen, New York, 1987. ISBN 978-0-415-04513-1
• McHale, Brian. Constructing Postmodernism. Routledge, 1993. ISBN 978-0-415-06014-1
• McLemee, Scott. You Hide, They Seek Inside Higher Ed, November 15, 2006.
• Mead, Clifford. Thomas Pynchon: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials. The Dalkey Archive Bibliography Series, Dalkey Archive Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-916583-37-8
• New York Review of Books. "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" (advertisement). Vol. 10, No. 3, February 15, 1968, p. 9.
• Page, Adrian. "Towards a poetics of hypertext fiction". In The Question of Literature: The Place on the Literary in Contemporary Theory, edited by Elizabeth B Bissell. Manchester University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7190-5744-2.
• Patterson, Troy (a). "Did the master make an appearance on his Amazon page?" Slate, July 20, 2006.
• Patterson, Troy (b). "Mystery solved" Slate, July 20, 2006.
• "Penguin Press Summer 2009 catalogue.
• "Penguin Press video trailer for Inherent Vice, August 4, 2009. (back)
• Pettman, Dominic. "Thomas Pynchon." In Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli (eds), Postmodernism: The Key Figures. Blackwell Publishers, Massachusetts, 2002, pp. 261–266. ISBN 978-0-631-21796-1
• Pincio, Tommaso L'ultimo Pynchon. il manifesto, June 20, 2009, p. 11. web copy link
• Plater, William M. Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon. Indiana University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-253-32670-6
• Plimpton, George. "Mata Hari with a Clockwork Eye, Alligators in the Sewer". Rev. of V. New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1963, p. 5.
• Pynchon, Thomas. "Voice of the Hamster", "The Boys", "Ye Legend of Sir Stupid and the Purple Knight". Oyster Bay High School Purple and Gold, 1952–53.
• Pynchon, Thomas. "A Journey into the Mind of Watts". The New York Times Magazine, June 12, 1966, pp. 34–35, 78, 80–82, 84.
• Pynchon, Thomas. "Introduction" to Slow Learner. Little, Brown and Company, Back Bay, 1984, pp. 3–23. ASIN: B000J6FCW6
• Pynchon, Thomas. "Words for Salman Rushdie". New York Times Book Review, March 12, 1989, p. 29.
• Pynchon, Thomas. Letter to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, December 6, 2006.
• Pynchon, Thomas. "Overview. Inherent Vice, Penguin, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59420-224-7
• Rising, Malin. "Nobel literature: Will an American win after all?". USA Today, October 9, 2008.
• Royster, Paul. "Thomas Pynchon: A Brief Chronology". Faculty Publications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2005.
• Ruch, Allen. Introduction to GR Themodernworld.com. May 21, 2000.
• Rushdie, Salman. Still Crazy After All Those Years The New York Times. January 14, 1990.
• Salm, Arthur. "A screaming comes across the sky (but not a photo)". San Diego Union-Tribune, February 8, 2004.
• Siegel, Jules. "Who is Thomas Pynchon, and why did he take off with my wife?" Playboy, March 1977.
• Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth. "The V-Shaped Paradigm: Nabokov and Pynchon". Cycnos 12.2 (1995): 173-80.
• Tanner, Tony. Thomas Pynchon. Methuen, 1982. ISBN 0-416-31670-0
• Ulin, David. "Gravity's End". Salon.com, April 25, 1997.
• Warner, Simon. "A king, a queen and two knaves?: An Interview with David Hajdu". Pop Matters, August 2, 2001.
• Weisenburger, Steven C. A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel. University of Georgia Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8203-1026-8
• Wisnicki, Adrian. "A Trove of New Works by Thomas Pynchon? Bomarc Service News Rediscovered." Pynchon Notes 46–49 (2000–1), pp. 9–34.
• Young, Robert Clark. "One Writer’s Big Innings". Black Warrior Review, Fall 1992.