gravity's rainbow is among the “most widely celebrated, unread novels” of american literature and already “a piece of minor folklore.” pynchon's genius manifests itself in his uniquely wide range of subject matter and literary techniques of presentation, narration, and interpretation. gravity's rainbow is a novel based on various sets of parallels, oppositions and double structures. these paral...

In his novel V., Thomas Pynchon paints a picture of the twentieth century dominated by physics, and of human behavior swept along by the inescapable tide of physical laws [1]. What chance does an individual have in seeking order in his or her own world when the universe as a whole is streaming inevitably towards a state of maximum entropy? It is a distressing picture, made more chilling by Pync...