The 3 best books by Thomas Pynchon

If you recently spoke of the now-defunct American writer David Foster Wallace, it is worth bringing up who could be part of your inspiration: Thomas pynchon. Because it is difficult for me to assume that good old Wallace, with his tendency to destructure the real towards an atomization of the purely human, would not feed on this compatriot and literary predecessor. Wallace invited us to relive desires disguised by dreams, alienating drives in a writing made metalanguage.

That composition of Wallace's place had to come from a Pynchon that had already been destroying typical narrative structures. Pynchon always gave himself up to his automaton creativity made more or less connected but always full of metaphorical pearls.

In addition to his ability to present, through hyperbolic symbolisms that steal reading attention, his particular clarification of philias and phobias that outline the human will.

Best of all, Pynchon uses close environments from which to move toward a vision that is as absurd as it is vigorously conceptual. A very complete cocktail with a base of American surrealism, descriptive genius, bizarre characters and an action always unexpected as a final dressing, so that you get hooked on that grotesque made of many-karat literature.

3 best Thomas Pynchon books:

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Let's start strong. You may not understand what the book is about (in fact it is not that easy to explain it either). Imagine that you go to a fashion show like the ones you see on television.

You have no idea of ​​fashion, or at least you are incapable of assuming that bizarre staging of characters with absent eyes as fashion. Well, welcome to the literary pass of the lot 49 auction.

Strange, yeah. Baffling for a fashionable layman, too. But you can't stop looking at what happens, that succession of models or characters seen in this case from the eyes of Mrs. Edipa Maas, the unexpected new rich woman exposed to the dangers of her lurking ex-husband (Mucho Maas, to be exact) by one side, as well as the most ruthless lawyers in the United States and secret organizations that are after his footsteps.

A great masquerade in which the surreal assaults American society. Maybe a criticism, maybe a satire, why not a thriller? Each one with his interpretation and his reading will be more or less satisfied. Of course, in a book club no one would end up concluding the same about what they read ...

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The absurd as an artistic or literary concept is an adventure or a challenge for intelligence. And getting closer to the three characters in this novel is an invitation towards the mystery made into an abstract projection of sexual or emotional tensions.

Desire or simply love so that Stencil ends up discovering who the exciting lady is that hides under the letter V. Profane as the most detached being in the world, a stoic to whom Mrs. V prolongs her complete apathy.

YV, she, the woman who can be everything and whose enigma the plot lives on and herself, willing to live in this game about her almost divine, essential existence.

Perhaps a metaphor about carnal desire and the verbiage that can accompany it to satisfy its end. Maybe the modern satire of the idealized love of Don Juan and Doña Inés. V is hilarious, weird, and captivating in her metaphors.

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The most attached to our world of Pynchon's creations. A crime novel in which the author's imagination for once focuses on the mundane.

A passing stay in the noir genre to make a critical review that goes beyond the social and approaches the human, the crime served as the foundation of the narrative thread, linear for once in his career.

The underworld as the perfect springboard for digressions of all kinds, sometimes hurtful but always comical. Los Angeles became an urban scene full of the stridencies of Pynchon determined to give a constant shake to our world.

A detective named Doc moves around in search of his ex's lover. The sixties, the counterculture, the perennial corruption personified in a pathetic cop named Bigfoot.

A crime novel or parody of a crime novel due to its inexhaustible source of humor, this novel becomes the first that every average reader should approach.

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