Thomas Pynchon
Auteur de Vente à la criée du lot 49
A propos de l'auteur
Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, New York on May 8, 1937. In 1959 he graduated with a B.A. in English from Cornell, where he had taken Vladimir Nabokov's famous course in modern literature after studying engineering physics and serving in the U.S. Navy for two years. He worked as a technical afficher plus writer at Boeing for two and a half years. Pynchon won the Faulkner First Novel Award for V. in 1963, and in The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), again his symbolism and commentary on the United States and human isolation have been praised as intricate and masterly, though some reviewers found it to be maddeningly dense. With this book Pynchon won the Rosenthal Foundation Award. Gravity's Rainbow, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1974, is in part a fictional elegy and meditation on death and an encyclopedic work that jumps through time. Pynchon has also written numerous essays, reviews, and introductions, plus the fictional works Slow Learner, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, and Inherent Vice. His title Bleeding Edge made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2013. He is famous for his reclusive nature, although he has made several animated appearances on The Simpsons television series. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow [multimedia] 5 exemplaires
Uncollected Works — Auteur — 3 exemplaires
La storia di Mondaugen 3 exemplaires
The World (This One), the Flesh (Mrs. Oedipa Maas), and the Testament of Pierce Inverarity {story} 1 exemplaire
Gravity's Rainbow; The Crying Lot; Against the Day 1 exemplaire
Literatura na Świecie, 1985, 7 (168) 1 exemplaire
The Voice of the Hamster 1 exemplaire
New world writing : 16 1 exemplaire
Aucun titre 1 exemplaire
Gravitys Rainbow 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associés
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Contributeur — 244 exemplaires
The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme (1992) — Introduction — 209 exemplaires
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributeur — 141 exemplaires
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology (1975) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Mondaugen — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Aerospace Safety (1960-12 - Vol 16 No 12) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles, Jr.
- Autre(s) nom(s)
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Date de naissance
- 1937-05-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Glen Cove, New-York, Etat-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Glen Cove, New York, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Manhattan Beach, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA
Aptos, California, USA - Études
- Cornell University (A.B. ∙ 1959)
- Professions
- technical writer
novelist
short-story writer - Relations
- Jackson, Melanie (wife)
Taormino, Tristan (niece) - Organisations
- United States Navy
- Prix et distinctions
- MacArthur Fellowship (1988)
U.S. National Book Award for Fiction (1973) - Agent
- Melanie Jackson
Membres
Discussions
Inherent Vice à Pynchon Pandæmonium (Août 2022)
Group Read, April 2019: Vineland à 1001 Books to read before you die (Mai 2019)
The Crying of Lot 49 à Someone explain it to me... (Mars 2017)
Club Read 2013 : Kesbooks reading plan à Club Read 2013 (Juin 2013)
Critiques
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Favourite Books (2)
Overdue Podcast (1)
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War Literature (1)
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Secret Histories (1)
Read This Next (1)
Yet another list (1)
2022 (1)
A Novel Cure (2)
Best First Lines (2)
Magic Realism (2)
Five star books (2)
1990s (2)
E's Reader (1)
Unread books (6)
1960s (1)
Reading Queue (1)
Metafiction (1)
1970s (1)
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Greatest Books (1)
Read (1)
Franklit (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 32
- Aussi par
- 17
- Membres
- 44,314
- Popularité
- #374
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 666
- ISBN
- 409
- Langues
- 26
- Favoris
- 351
- Liens rapides
- 1,138