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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro.  zip_000 | Nov 18, 2009 |  It's a hyperbola, it's genius, it's a goddamn mess. "Against the Day" is likely to be the last doorstop-sized Pynchon novel, and it's hard to know what to make of it. It's as structurally flawless as anything he's ever done, and there are passages of both breathtaking beauty and utter hilarity, but there are also acres of sprawl that tested even this Pynchon nut's patience. It's still worth the read, though. (  )1  schlimmbesserung | Nov 18, 2009 | 1,000 pages...it will take me awhile to work up the courage to start in on it. Every year I read something this long though (2007 = Infinite Jest / 2008 = The Recognitions).  phette23 | Oct 19, 2009 | La chronique de Contre-Jour est disponible ici. (  ) lescargotgarpien | Sep 19, 2009 | Why did Pynchon write this book? None of the positive reviews in the press have enlightened me. Is there anything important being said here? At times self-parodying, at others self-indulgent, I think this book is just a big mess. It's too bad. When I was 20 years old, I read my first Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" (this was in 1973, by the way). I thought it brilliant then, and still do. But I have to call 'em as I see 'em, and this one misses by a lot. Yes, I've read some things about themes, bilocation, etc. It's that what themes there are, are half-baked ideas, not terribly well-executed, coherent, or comprehensible. One of Pynchon's weaknesses has been the inability to define his characters as fully-formed, believable persons. They usually represent one or more attitudes, or more likely, afflictions in the service of the bigger picture. He got away with that in "Gravity's Rainbow", because the overall message was powerful and disturbing. Here, I was waiting for the payoff. Where is it? (  )1 nog | Jul 16, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 159420120X, Hardcover)Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred. The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx. As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction. Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck. --Thomas Pynchon (retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) A primeira ronda de testes foi já encerrada. Visite o grupo Open Shelves Classification para mais informação. |
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I think one of the reasons for its size, as well as one of the reasons for its accessibility, is that it is really more like 4 or 5 books - in as many styles - than one book. There is a boys adventure story, there is a western revenge story, there is a noire detective story, there is a European espionage story, there is an oriental mysticism story. Of course all of the stories and styles are all mish-mashed together. Reading other reviews, it seems that many people came to this looking for a message or some meaning, but I really doubt that there is any coherent take away from a book like this.
I'd like to write more because it was such an amazing book, but I'm not feeling terribly inspired at the moment. (