Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
Date personale
Născut	8 mai 1937 Glen Cove, New York, New York
Părinți	Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr.[*][[Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. ((1907-1995))|​]] Catherine Frances Pynchon[*][[Catherine Frances Pynchon ((1909-1996))|​]]
Naționalitate	SUA
Cetățenie	Statele Unite ale Americii
Ocupație	scriitor
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză
Studii	licență în literatura engleză, Universitatea Cornell, New York
Pregătire	Vladimir Nabokov
Activitatea literară
Mișcare/curent literar	Postmodernism
Patronaj	Boeing
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
Note
Premii	MacArthur Fellows Program[*][[MacArthur Fellows Program (prizes awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)|​]] National Book Award for Fiction[*][[National Book Award for Fiction (American annual literary award)|​]] William Faulkner Foundation Award[*][[William Faulkner Foundation Award (Literary award for "notable first novel")|​]] William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters[*][[William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literary award)|​]]
Semnătură
Prezență online
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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)
  • V., Editura Polirom, 2006
• The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
  • Strigarea lotului 49, Editura Polirom, 2018
• Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
  • Curcubeul gravitației, Editura Polirom, 2010
• Slow Learner (1984), nuvele
• Vineland (1990)
• Mason & Dixon (1997)
• Against the Day (2006)
• Inherent Vice (2009)
  • Viciu ascuns, Editura Polirom, 2022
• Bleeding Edge (2013)

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, 22 aprilie 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), 7 iunie 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? Arhivat în 3 decembrie 2014, la Wayback Machine." 5 iunie 1997.
• The Complete Review. "Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon" 2006.
• Corey, Irwin. "Transcript of National Book Award acceptance speech Arhivat în 24 decembrie 2013, la Wayback Machine.", delivered 18 aprilie 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 – 21 septembrie 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
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• Gibbs, Rodney. "A Portrait of the Luddite as a Young Man" Arhivat în 12 noiembrie 2006, la Wayback Machine.. Denver Quarterly 39.1, 2004.
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• Gray, Paul. "Rooms of Their Own Arhivat în 13 august 2013, la Wayback Machine.". Time, 18 octombrie 1993.
• Grimes, William. "Toni Morrison Is '93 Winner Of Nobel Prize in Literature". New York Times Book Review, 8 octombrie 1993.
• Gussow, Mel. "Pynchon's Letters Nudge His Mask" Arhivat în 17 octombrie 2007, la Wayback Machine.. New York Times, 4 martie 1998.
• Hitchens, Christopher. "Salman Rushdie: Even this colossal threat did not work. Life goes on. Arhivat în 19 ianuarie 2012, la Wayback Machine." 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^{[nefuncțională]}". Associated Press, 20 iulie 2006.
• Kellogg, Caroline. "New Thomas Pynchon book on the way?". 'Jacket Copy', Los Angeles Times, 3 octombrie 2008.
• Kihss, Peter. "Pulitzer Jurors; His Third Novel". The New York Times, 8 mai 1974, p. 38.
• Krafft, John M., Bernard Duyfhuizen & Khachig Tölölyan (eds). Pynchon Notes - Cumulative bibliography Arhivat în 13 ianuarie 2013, la Wayback Machine., 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" Arhivat în 27 iulie 2011, la Wayback Machine.. Meerkat Media Arts Collective, Blog Archive, August 4 2009.
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• McLemee, Scott. You Hide, They Seek Arhivat în 8 februarie 2021, la Wayback Machine. Inside Higher Ed, 15 noiembrie 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, 15 februarie 1968, p. 9.
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• Pincio, Tommaso L'ultimo Pynchon. il manifesto, 20 iunie 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, 21 aprilie 1963, p. 5.
• Pynchon, Thomas. "Voice of the Hamster" Arhivat în 15 martie 2013, la Wayback Machine., "The Boys" Arhivat în 1 ianuarie 2008, la Wayback Machine., "Ye Legend of Sir Stupid and the Purple Knight". Arhivat în 17 mai 2008, la Wayback Machine. Oyster Bay High School Purple and Gold, 1952–53.
• Pynchon, Thomas. "A Journey into the Mind of Watts Arhivat în 19 februarie 2006, la Wayback Machine.". The New York Times Magazine, 12 iunie 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 Arhivat în 17 aprilie 2008, la Wayback Machine.". New York Times Book Review, 12 martie 1989, p. 29.
• Pynchon, Thomas. Letter to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, 6 decembrie 2006.
• Pynchon, Thomas. "Overview. Inherent Vice, Penguin, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59420-224-7
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