Gravity's Rainbow (Russian Edition)

by Thomas Pynchon, Anastasiya Gryzunova (Translator), Maksim Nemcov (Translator)

Overview

A Penguin Classic

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389206229
Publisher:	Inostranka
Publication date:	01/25/2022
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	928
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland , Mason and Dixon and, most recently, Against the Day. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

Frank Miller is the author and illustrator of Sin City and the 1986 Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns, which is regarded as a milestone in the superhero genre.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

May 8, 1937

Place of Birth:

Glen Cove, Long Island, New York

Education:

B. A., Cornell University, 1958

Editorial Reviews

Thomas Pynchon's novel is one of the longest, darkest, most difficult and most ambitious books in years....Gravity's Rainbow is bone-crushingly dense, compulsively elaborate, silly, obscence, funny, tragic, poetic, dull, inspired, horrific, cold and blasted. -- The New York Times Books of the Century

Charles McGrath

Fantastic!...Fantistically large, complex, funny, perplexing, daring, and weird...if I were banished to the moon tomorrow, and could take any five books along, this has to be one of them. -- The New York Times

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Winner of the National Book Award in Fiction

From the Publisher

Pynchon's masterwork is vast, sprawling, and chaotic. Here its frenzied prose is balanced and stabilized by George Guidall's calm voice. Pynchon is the poet laureate of paranoia, so the reassuringly sane narration helps us pretend that this is all happening in something like the real world. Guidall doesn't try to create individualized voices for all the major characters, but neither does Pynchon, really. You can tell who is speaking at all times, and that has to be enough. This is an audiobook to immerse yourself in, and if you don't quite follow the story—and you won't unless you've already read the book a few times—just have faith that you’re in expert hands. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2015 - AudioFile