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21.07.06
Thomas Pynchon, a dicembre
La notizia è sensazionale (almeno per me). Thomas Pynchon sta completando la revisione delle bozze di un suo nuovo romanzo, che verrà pubblicato il prossimo 5 dicembre. Ne ha dato conto lo stesso editore al Los Angeles Times: "Non c'è ancora un titolo, e non possiamo fornire alcun dettaglio sulla trama. E' tutto quello che posso dire".
L'ultimo romanzo di Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, era stato pubblicato nel 1997.
BIBLIOGRAFIA
Racconti:
The Small Rain, in "The Cornell Writer", marzo 1959
Mortality and Mercy in Vienna , in "Epoch", Cornell's University, primavera 1959
Low-lands, in "New World Writing", febbraio 1960
Entropy, in "The Canyon Review", primavera 1960
Under the Rose, in "The Noble Savage", maggio 1961
The Secret Integration, in "The Saturday Evening Post", 19 dicembre 1964
The World (This One), the Flesh (Mrs. Oedipa Maas), and the Testament of Piecer Inverarity, in "Esquire", dicembre 1965
The Shrink Flips , in "Cavalier", marzo 1966
Slow Learner (Early Stories 1958-1964), Little Brown & Co. 1984
Romanzi:
V., Lippincott 1963
The Crying of Lot 49 , Lippincott 1966
Gravity's Rainbow , Viking 1973
Vineland, Little, Brown & Co. 1990
Mason & Dixon, Henry Holt & Co. 1997
Saggi e Articoli:
Togetherness, in "Aerospace Safety", 16.12 (1960)
A Journey into the Mind of Watts , in "The New York Times Magazine", 12 giugno 1966
Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?, in "The New York Times Book Review", 28 ottobre 1984
The Deadly Sins: Sloth. "Nearer, My Couch, To Thee", in "The New York Times Book Review, 6 giugno 1993
Posted by Leonardo Colombati at 21.07.06 14:06
Comments
Queste informazioni le ho trovate sul sito amazon (un minimo di attendibilità ci dovrebbe essere, quindi):
Book Description
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
Inoltre:
Product Details
Hardcover: 992 pages
Posted by: Francesco Gallo at 21.07.06 17:49
Sapete se lo stanno già traducendo in italiano?
Posted by: oedipa at 27.07.06 16:27
...e dovrebbe intitolarsi "Against the Day", almeno stando a questo sito: http://www.slate.com/id/2146272/?nav=tap3
un saluto
Posted by: Ulrico at 28.07.06 18:11