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FJCTION Winner of the coveted William Faulkner Foundation First Növel Award in 1963, V ís an ever popular növel by one of America's great modernists. V. is a wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men (one looking for something he has lost; the other never had much to lose so isn't looking for it)-and "V," the unknown lady of the title; who may be somebody's mother, somebody s mistress, or the world gone mad with despair. Tilled with wild humor, inventive wordplay and a darkly imaginative power. The story roams all over the map and featunes such characters as Benny Profáné an adventurer named Stencil and a mysterious woman known only as V" -Philadelphia Inquírer "Benny Profane['s] function in the növel is to perfect the state of 'schlemielhood'-that is to say being the victim His friends are called the Whole Sick Crew Set in contrast to Profáné is a young adventurer named Stencil...obsessed by a self-imposed duty which he follows, somewhat joylessly-a Quest to... Tovább

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FJCTION Winner of the coveted William Faulkner Foundation First Növel Award in 1963, V ís an ever popular növel by one of America's great modernists. V. is a wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men (one looking for something he has lost; the other never had much to lose so isn't looking for it)-and "V," the unknown lady of the title; who may be somebody's mother, somebody s mistress, or the world gone mad with despair. Tilled with wild humor, inventive wordplay and a darkly imaginative power. The story roams all over the map and featunes such characters as Benny Profáné an adventurer named Stencil and a mysterious woman known only as V" -Philadelphia Inquírer "Benny Profane['s] function in the növel is to perfect the state of 'schlemielhood'-that is to say being the victim His friends are called the Whole Sick Crew Set in contrast to Profáné is a young adventurer named Stencil...obsessed by a self-imposed duty which he follows, somewhat joylessly-a Quest to discover the identity of V., a woman s initial which occurs in the journals of his father, a British Foreign Office man, drowned in a waterspout off of Malta " - New York Times Book Reuíew "[V] leaves the imagination spent and the mind reeling." - New York Herald Tribüné AI$o available in Perennial Library: Thomas Pynchon s The Cryíng of Lot 49 Vissza