Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0977312798 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 784 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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""There's all these cool kinds of pictures!"" according to Gregory Parrish. My two sons (Zachary and Alexander) have been saving their allowance and doing extra chores to save money for a Nintendo DS (they save half, my wife & I pay half). This has been a huge deal for them because they each really want one.Yesterday, my wife took the boys to a bookstore, and 7 1/2 year old Zach saw Zak Smith's book based on Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow". He could not, would not put it down; he was mesmerized. He's not one to want, want, want, but this, he had to have. He looked at various and sundry art-related b. SeekingTraveler said Regret purchasing the book. I have read Thomas Pynchon’s brilliant novel “Gravity’s Rainbow” (Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)) three times. The last time I read it, I also read A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel, "Regret purchasing the book" according to SeekingTraveler. I have read Thomas Pynchon’s brilliant novel “Gravity’s Rainbow” (Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)) three times. The last time I read it, I also read A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel, 2nd Edition, which revealed meanings I had previously missed.The title of Smith’s 760-page book claims to show “what happens on each page of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity Rainbow.” This title is very misleading. Call me artistically-chal. nd Edition, which revealed meanings I had previously missed.The title of Smith’s 760-page book claims to show “what happens on each page of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity Rainbow.” This title is very misleading. Call me artistically-chal. Five Stars Buy this book
Smith has created more than 750 pages of drawings, paintings, and photoseach derived from a page of Pynchon’s novel. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of wara burned-out Konigstiger tank, a melted machine guncoexist alongside such fantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the “stumbling bird” and “Grigori the octopus.” Smith has said he aimed to be “as literal as possible” in interpreting Gravity’s Rainbow, but his images are as imaginative and powerful as the prose they honor.. Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated: One Picture for Every Page features the work of an Ivy League-educated, punk-rock, porn-star visual artist who has created a drawing for every page of a novel that is widely considered to be the most difficult work of literature ever produced in English. Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) has been called a modernFinnegans Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With Pictures 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 twentieth-century classic
"The end result of his endeavor is less an illustrated novel than a series of eerie, high art interpretations." Marcela Valdes, Washington Post