Does anyone have a .pdf of this they can share? I can't find one anywhere online...

Is it the kind of thing you read before or after or during the novels themselves? I've only read Lot 49. I have five more of his book ready to go, so I'm just curious.

Sorry to be another guy asking questions. I was just looking into it the other day.

You don't need a scanner, they're super slow. You need a camera and a way to mount it above the book.

I wouldnt read that

How are the Cambridge companions?

And perhaps a stupid question, how should they be read? Do you read the work then read an essay?

I've read every novel before purchasing the companion, but I've bought it to have an entry point for academic research concerning his work. I wouldn't recommend it necessarily as a 'key to make sense of it all' rather than as a guide that lays out recurring themes and introduces the reader to 'Pynchonisms'. Chapters vary from actual essays on a specific book (esp. the one on GR is very good, written by a (if not the) renounced GR specialist) or on broader themes (e.g. 'Pynchon's postmodernism', 'Pynchon and history', 'Pynchon and politics', 'Pynchon and alterity', etc.).

TCoL49 has no chapter of its own, for example, but is featured together with the other California novels (Vineland and Inherent Vice). That being said, I'd much rather advise people to go to the so-called Pynchon wiki WHILST reading the novels, they have excellent page-by-page 'walkthroughs'. I'm not American and fairly young so I would have missed out on A LOT of cultural references if it weren't for those wiki entries.

Cambridge companions are excellent as a starting point for getting into 'the academic side of (an) author(s)'. Very often they are composed and edited by the authors' literary executor or at least someone that is very familiar with the author.

I always read the work and then the essay. CCs gave me some 'aha! Erlebnises' before and I think that most of the essays in them would not make too much sense if you have not at least partially read the works they are talking about or referring to. Then again, I have only read about half of SP's plays but could make good sense of everything in 'his' CC - but SP and Pynchon are two en-ti-re-ly different bodies of work, of course.

Thanks, brotherman.

Cheers. I'll probably pick up their companion to Homer.

Would you say the reading of essays improves your general reading experience?

Welcome! I also want to add that Bleeding Edge is not yet incorporated in the Companion.

Thanks again. If you don't mind my asking, is your dissertation on Pynchon? Pomo lit?

And after Lot 49, how do you recommend proceeding? I was thinking V. Seems to be the general consensus.

Definitely, but then again it's quite obvious that secondary material helps you - even if it's only a little - to make more sense of literature, literary tradition and literary theory as a whole.

There's a scholar that layed bare the principle of Negative Dialectics (Adorno) in GR - my dissertation is in a way a continuation of that, but I focus on the California novels and shift the 'core' of my analyses away from epistemology (although there is A LOT that can be said about that, as it's for example one of the main topics in TCoL49) and more towards identity. Especially the notion of counterculture is one that's very interesting in those three novels - more so than in the other novels he's written imo and is one that I can rave about for the full length of the 20.000 word limit. Hehe.

V. is the general consensus and it is for a reason: it's also early Pynchon, a tad more challenging than TCoL49 though, but a great novel nonetheless. It's not too 'difficult' (trust me, GR was boring in its complexity at times) to be a struggle to read and still fun. If you're going for something more relaxing I'd suggest Inherent Vice - often referred to as Pynchon Lite, because of the focus on dialogue and more lighthearted themes. But hey, try V.!

Very fucking cool. I tend not to have a problem with challenging texts. They take longer and all, but I can work through em. Pynchon is just one writer I've been saving because I kinda knew I'd like him, and I do.

When it comes to Adorno, I've only read Dialectic of Enlightenment. I'll give ND a try very soon. Been meaning to read more into the Frankfurt school/critical theory in general.

>GR was boring in its complexity at times
I'm just about to finish part one. Does it get less boring? It's been pretty hit or miss so far. The hits were pretty great, but the misses last longer.

use soulseek for PDFs and epubs

I doubt there's anything on soulseek that's not on libgen/bibliotik.

Apparently I have to download whatever that is. Can you just tell me if it's on there first?

The guy with the copy here - I checked, it isn't on there (but it's worth the download anyway - it's a bit like Limewire 2.0 but actually working great)

I got the book divided in a pdf per chapter. anyone want anything specific?

YES, ALL OF IT.

PLS RESPOND

All of it, come on. Put it on mega.

lmao desperate poorfags

but why

is it raining inside your room?

ill do it tonight

You're a saint if you do

No, my camera was damaged by water once. Malfunctioned for over half a year, suddenly restored itself but with those weird colors remaining.

dank pic yo

One of my profs has an essay in this

Which one?

Good post.

I've a sense a lot of both Pynchon and Delillo is a response to Adorno's negative dialectics. I also think that negative dialectics is a response to Beckett. So, maybe, Bill Gray was right after all. Beckett was the last writer.

There's a lot you can say about Pynchon and Adorno because of the former's treatment of low-culture.

Did you enjoy Against the Day?

friendly reminder

I only have the retail epub

www23.zippyshare.com/v/eS2007Lf/file.html

based

thanks

You wouldn't happen to have Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture?

Yes, epub.

www10.zippyshare.com/v/Mz0zYxoY/file.html

how do you have these epubs?

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Picked them up somewhere. ;)

dont be mean

he probably just payed for it

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