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Against the Grain: Reading Pynchon's Counternarratives is the first book that critically addresses Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day , published in 2006. The nineteen essays collected in this volume employ a large variety of approaches to this massive novel and also take it as an... read more
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- Thomas Pynchon: Add a description of this character.
- Slothrop
- Henry James
- Marcuse
- Tancredi
- Hinton
- Marx
- Kim
- Deleuze
- H. G. Wells
- Yashmeen
- Guattari
- Pökler
- Zoyd
- Cyprian
- Lew Basnight
- Ralph
- Henwood
- Mendelson
- Mason & Dixon
- Hilbert
- Einstein
- Bergson
- Barthes
- Frank
- Takeshi
- Webb
- Roger
- Hite
- Bauman
- Clissan
- Jonathan Cape
- Danilo
- Jessica
- Katje
- Kakutani
- Ernie
- Chick
- Routledge
- Oedipa
- Edel
- David
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- New York
- London
- Vineland
- Venice
- Balkans
- America
- Croatia
- Velebit
- Chicago
- India
- Cambridge
- Gravity’s Rainbow
- Hollywood
- Sandison
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- Europe
- Bosnia
- Reef
- Iceland
- United States
- Scorpia
- Tesla
- England
- Zagreb
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- Philadelphia
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- Usa
- Budapest
- Colorado
- Japan
- Ostend
- Austria
- Italy
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