by Thomas Pynchon · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467239676
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In 'Against the Day', Thomas Pynchon recreates a decaying world spanning from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the years after World War I. Through hundreds of interwoven plots, the reader is transported from labor conflicts in the Colorado mines to turn-of-the-century New York, passing through London, Göttingen, Venice, Vienna, the Balkans, Siberia, revolutionary Mexico, post-war Paris, and silent film Hollywood. A gallery of characters such as anarchists, aeronauts, gamblers, mathematicians, spies, and gunmen mingle with real figures such as Bela Lugosi and Groucho Marx. Pynchon parodies all literary genres in a narrative feast full of conspiracies, peculiar sexual practices, songs, secret maps, and jumps in time and space.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to history, art, science, and popular culture. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive. Few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s.
