Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow - Brossura

Smith, Zak

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ISBN 10: 0977312798 ISBN 13: 9780977312795

Casa editrice: Tin House Books, 2006

Riassunto

Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), set in an alternative-universe version of World War II, has been called a modernFinnegan’s Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. WithPictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, artist Zak Smith at once eases and expands readers’ experience of the book. A leading exponent of punk-based, DIY art, Smith here presents his most ambitious project to date an art book exactly as long as the work it’s interpreting: 760 drawings, paintings, photos, and less definable images in 760 pages. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of war a burned-out Königstiger tank, a melted machine gun coexist alongside such phantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the stumbling bird” and Girgori the octopus.” Smith has stated his aim to be as literal as possible” in interpretingGravity’s Rainbow, but his images are as imaginative and powerfully unique as the prose they honor.

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Recensione:

"The end result of his endeavor is less an illustrated novel than a series of eerie, high art interpretations." Marcela Valdes, Washington Post
 "The drawings are surprisingly detailed, colorful and contemplative, adding new layers to the text and potentially earning Pynchon some new fans." -Whitney Matheson, USA Today "[Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow] can be enjoyed on its own or read simultaneously with the 1973 novel, putting smith's art next to those discursive, intricate, elusive, overwritten sentences." -Jeff Baker, The Oregonian

"He draws a lurid and intoxicating netherworld, complete in its own right...an illuminating companion to the novel." Emily Barton, Los Angeles Times

Product Description:

A leading exponent of punk-based, DIY art, Smith presents an art book exactly as long as the work it is interpreting. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of war - a burned-out tank, a melted machine-gun - coexist with ssuch phantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the stumbling bird and Girgori the octopus.

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• Editore: Tin House Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0977312798
• ISBN 13: 9780977312795
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 760