Acclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon's wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to Cited by: 5. This is the first novel by the American master, Thomas Pynchon. Like many first novels, there may be a bit of Thomas Pynchon in the novel. Benny Profane is a young man who bounces from job to job and woman to woman after exiting the Navy. He soon finds himself at the center of a conspiracy surrounding a mysterious woman named V/5(). About V. The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” the unknown woman of the title. Also by Thomas PynchonPages:
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for V. by Thomas Pynchon (Paperback, ) at the best online prices at eBay! V., by Thomas Pynchon. "V." is a first novel by an obviously talented young writer. It is an ambitious work and asks to be _ Pynchon's humor is of the strenuous contemporary sort, for this novel goes to extraordinary lengths to be funny, extreme, alive to the soullessness of the times. V, novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in and granted the Faulkner Foundation award for a first novel. The complex and frequently whimsical narrative recounts the search of Benny Profane and Herbert Stencil for the mysterious and elusive V, a woman who surfaces in various incarnations and.
Thomas Pynchon’s first novel V. is not so much a novel as a series of short novels held together by hinges: the book is composed of 17 chapters (or 16 + an epilogue), seven of which are short novels having to do with the mysterious woman known as “V” while the other chapters function as jointures—like Heidegger’s jointures in his Contributions to Philosophy—which hinge the other seven together. Thus, the book is meant to be symbolically “unfolded” and opened up in a. This is the first novel by the American master, Thomas Pynchon. Like many first novels, there may be a bit of Thomas Pynchon in the novel. Benny Profane is a young man who bounces from job to job and woman to woman after exiting the Navy. He soon finds himself at the center of a conspiracy surrounding a mysterious woman named V. V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in March, It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveller named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V.".
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