L'arcobaleno Della Gravità by Thomas Pynchon
A sprawling, darkly comic and hallucinatory novel set around the final months of World War II and its aftermath, following a vast cast of characters whose lives are entangled by a mysterious rocket program. Centered on an American lieutenant whose sexual encounters appear linked to the trajectories of V-2 rockets, the narrative weaves paranoia, scientific obsession, bureaucratic conspiracies and mythic symbolism into a dense, non-linear tapestry that interrogates fate, power, and the commodification of technology. The work mixes slapstick, erudition and surreal lyricism to explore how modernity's systems—military, corporate and scientific—shape human desire and meaning.
- Published
- 1973
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 700-800 pages
- Original Language
- English
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- - L'arcobaleno della gravità
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