La Subasta Del Lote 49

Paperback, 150 pages

Spanish language

Published Jan. 7, 2002 by Tusquets.

ISBN:
978-84-7223-829-9
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OCLC Number:
434425786

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Oedipa Maas, executor of the will of Pierce Inverarity, journeys through a bizarre underground of secret societies, jazz clubs, beatniks, and her own psyche. Readers accustomed to postmodern literature will revel in Pynchon's second novel.

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I read this book for a class on postmodern literature so my reading was definitely informed by that context. However, I will say that I have been meaning to crack into Pynchon for a while, and I'm glad I did it with this book instead of Gravity's Rainbow which was my original plan. Not that I didn't thoroughly enjoy and admire his style, but starting with one of his larger novels would have been a bit like spontaneously stopping into a full length screening of Michael Snow's La Region Centrale having never seen an experimental film before. It's good to know what you're getting into.

I will certainly be reading Gravity's Rainbow. Not only did I find myself laughing out loud in more than one spot, there were moments of abrupt poetry and dramatic artfulness that felt totally unexpected, though I couldn't tell you why. For all its whimsy and …

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  • General
  • Education
  • Fiction - General
  • Spanish: Adult Nonfiction