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SLOW LEARNER: The Early Stories by Thomas Pynchon
'Thomas Pynchon is the Gargantua of modern fiction, whose copious prose has a kingly appetite for big and beautiful words, for scientific and philosophical ideas, for great sweeps of history and geography, for bold pastiche and ingenious lexical games. Pynchon in person, though, is famously insubstantial. The About the Author' end-papers of his books are conspicuously blank. In Slorv Learner he breaks cover for the first time with a remarkably openhanded portrait of the writer as a young man. Here is the sustained pleasure of watching a clever and talented young man struggling to find a style of his own. From such a reticent man it is a weirdly generous book.'
JONATHAN RABAN/THE SUNDAY TIMES
Tossibly the most accomplished writer of prose in English since James Joyce. Sentence by sentence he can do more than any novélist of this century with the resources of the English-American language and with the various... Tovább

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PICADOR fiction
SLOW LEARNER: The Early Stories by Thomas Pynchon
'Thomas Pynchon is the Gargantua of modern fiction, whose copious prose has a kingly appetite for big and beautiful words, for scientific and philosophical ideas, for great sweeps of history and geography, for bold pastiche and ingenious lexical games. Pynchon in person, though, is famously insubstantial. The About the Author' end-papers of his books are conspicuously blank. In Slorv Learner he breaks cover for the first time with a remarkably openhanded portrait of the writer as a young man. Here is the sustained pleasure of watching a clever and talented young man struggling to find a style of his own. From such a reticent man it is a weirdly generous book.'
JONATHAN RABAN/THE SUNDAY TIMES
Tossibly the most accomplished writer of prose in English since James Joyce. Sentence by sentence he can do more than any novélist of this century with the resources of the English-American language and with the various média by which it is made available to us, everything from coterie slangs to technological jargons, from film to economic history, from comic books to the poetry of T S Eliot, from Baedeker to the Bible. He is endlessly full of meaning.' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
'Pynchon at his best- and Fand Gravity 's Rainbow bear unmistakable marks of genius - could be defined without much exaggeration as a supreme teller of twentieth century 'sewer stories' that is of tales from the dark underground of the modern imagination, where 'truth or falsity don't apply'. THE GUARDIAN
4 Anything from the most monstrous talent in the post-war West should be pursued in earnest. I've eaten two copies already.' TIME OUT Vissza