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na amazonie wlasnie pojawilo sie info nt nowej powiesci pynchona - ciagle jednak nie znamy tytulu; \
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
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 and, most recently, Mason and Dixon. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
Product Details
* Hardcover: 992 pages
* Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (December 5, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN: 159420120X -
Anonim
Słodko... Może być wspaniale, oczywiście jeżeli książka w Polsce w ogóle się ukaże/nie pójdzie na przemiał po miesiącu/nie zostanie przetłumaczona przez panią Joannę Urban.
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hmm ciekawe, powyzszy opis z amazona lezal 1 dzien - wlasnie zostal usuniety. -
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albo p. napisal te notke tylko dla wydawnictwa, ale nie chcial zeby ja publikowano, a tu zonk. -
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z tego co zdarzylem sie dowiedziec wydawnictwo penguin lubi stosowac tego typu "strategie" zeby podsycic atmosfere i zeby bylo o czym mowic. no i im sie udalo haha; ) -
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Niezależnie od wszystkiego, zapowiada się kolejne wielkie wyzwanie... Bring it on!!! -
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Lubie chrupki
mozesz cos wiecej napisac - o czym jest ogolnie i tak dalej ? sa planowane jakiekolwiek tlumaczenia P.? jakiekolwiek? -
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ledwo zaczalem :)
juz sporo info jest na wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agains...
ludziom sie naprawde musi nudzic :)
co do tlumaczen to nie wiem, ale moze warto by bylo wyslac maila do proszynskiego. -
Computer says "No".
A ja dziś kupiłem Against the day w Arkadii :). Co mnie zaskoczyło, to że wcale nie jest napisana jakimś bardzo trudnym i niezrozumiałym angielskim czego sie obawiałem. Zapowiadają się upojne godziny! -
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