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15809717 No.15809717 [Reply] [Original]

You have been Pynched, haven't you?
What's his magnum opus and why is it Mason and Dixon?

>> No.15809966

It’s mason and dixon because I just said it

>> No.15810068

Read it and find out faggot

>> No.15810077

Wrong. Its Against the Day

>> No.15810211

>>15810077
>getting pynched this hard

>> No.15810482

>>15810077
His most overrated book on this board and most irrelevant outside of here.

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>>15809717

>> No.15810585

>>15810482
High end literature has never been relevant amongst the plebeians.
PYNCHED

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>Pynch hard but don't cut off circulation.

>> No.15810601

It’s Inherent Vice

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>> No.15810634

someone please tell me who the kenosha kid was

>> No.15810650

>>15810601
I'm a brainlet and am enjoying this one so far.

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>> No.15811383

>>15810585
>Plebians
Yeah sure man, critics sure do suck off ATD and not shove it aside as an 'afterwork'.

>> No.15811947

>>15810634
orson welles

>> No.15812118

>>15809717
His magnus opus is gr

>> No.15812980

>>15812118
Based and pynch pilled

>> No.15812989

>>15809717
I’m reading Gravity’s Rainbow at the moment, and the vitality and sheer bursting-with-life of the book is the closest thing I’ve ever read to prose Shakespeare. Good work Mr. Pynch.

>> No.15813178

PYNCHED power rankings
GR>M&D>AtD>CoL49>california stoner popcorn books>>>BE

>> No.15813418

>>15809717
I'm very new to Pynchon, having read only Bleeding Edge and now starting Mason & Dixon, and the first description of a naval battle already puts this book in it's own superlative category.

>> No.15813472

>>15809717
>What's his magnum opus
All of it sucks, and everyone who disagrees has been filtered away from true lit

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>>15813472

>> No.15813672

>>15809717
Fuck that goofy ass looking faggot

>> No.15813783

>>15813472
PYNCHED

>> No.15813813

Brainlet here
Wtf is the deal with the film theater in the end of GR

>> No.15813820

>>15810077
Yes, this is correct.

>>15810482
Nah. See above.

>> No.15813880

>>15813783
filtered

>> No.15813933

>>15813610
No, no meggos in Pynchon threads; not enough sincerity

>> No.15814038

>>15813813
Keep in mind entire doctoral theses have been constructed on this, so the following is only my opinion, albeit a common one.
The entire book is meant to be a movie that the reader is watching at the theater. The square symbols that break the parts are splices in the film reel, and the way the characters break into song is similar to a movie. The reader is watching the movie before the missile strikes them, and the whole thing repeats.
This ending acts not only as a splice between the beginning and the end, but also as a further meditation on the balance of life and death, amd the role entropy itself plays in such a balance.

>> No.15814186

>>15813178
Col49 ahead of Atd and i drink beer with you.

>> No.15814195

>>15813820
>See above
All i see is a pleb opinion and hey look another one! Shame on you anon.

>> No.15814238

>>15814186
CoL49 is great, don't get me wrong, but it just feels a bit shallow compared to the other tome books. Granted, even the Pynch thinks it was a rough attempt, but I do see the value in the way it acts as a refinement to his overall themes.
AtD just feels better adjusted in contrast, it explore its themes in a more weighty manner.

>> No.15814588

>>15813880
pynched

>> No.15814631

>>15814588
Dear I say, constructivity fitting of a fraud!

>> No.15814682

>>15813813
A cinema was the location of the biggest death toll of a single V2, killing 567 people.

>> No.15814870

>>15812989

for shakespeare level read moby dick too if you havent already

>> No.15814909

>>15814038
very well put. may not be the absolute definite read on it but its a pretty great one

>> No.15815208

>>15810077
AtD is a great read and has some wonderful parts in it. It's very impressive considering it's size
>>15810597
Post more
>>15810601
Inherent Vice is actually underrated as fuck. It comes across as just a goofy neo-noir, but the deep state references there are on par with Lot 49
>>15812989
>>15814870
This is why GR is his best. It's not even a novel, it transcends and becomes just pure information. And yes, Melville is 100% Pynchon's literary progenitor
>>15813813
>>15814038
Great explanation, also note that the theater is in Los Angeles, we'll after the war, and it's owned by none other than tricky dick himself. You are watching a movie, in Cali in the 60s, about Europe in the 40s, and you are to understand how one era can be seen within the other

>> No.15815268

>>15814038
Actually it's a dream of a movie or is it???

>> No.15815290

>>15814238
But unlike Atd, Tcol49 is solid all the way through and doesn't drag for a third of its length until, albeit, a memorable end. Ofc it'd be relatively shallow compared to the tomes, its like what, one-seventh the length of Atd but its Pynchon's densest work going on a page to page basis apart from maybe GR.

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>>15814631
peterson's a fraud, pynchie is the Real Deal

>> No.15815541

>>15812118
It's a boring answer but at least it's true.

>> No.15816067

>>15815208
Brilliant point about the comparison between eras, I think that's one of the most over-looked aspects of the Pynch's work, it's a theme that seems to pop up in every one of his books.
>>15815290
All valid points, definitely agree on the density. I guess my main 'issue', if you could call it that, with CoL49 is that it seems like only a rough grasping at the themes that would become more defined in further pieces. Granted, as you stated it's a much smaller piece, but the themes themselves don't seem quite as sturdy as the other works, as though they were only foundational at that point.

>> No.15816448

What is everyone's opinion on the schwarzgerat? I can't help but fall into the 'death's womb' camp, but I've always been interested in other interpretations.