The Crying of Lot 49
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- 139 Seiten
- 5 Lesestunden
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Oedipa Maas arrives home from a party to discover she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. This sets her on a strange trail of detection which leads to a secret postal system of outcasts called W.A.S.T.E. Bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse Oedipa in her search: Dr Hilarius, the sinister face-pulling psychoanalyst; Metzger, the child actor turned lawyer; and the eminent philatelist, Genghis Cohen, who likes sex with the news on. But gradually death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to rob Oedipa of her companions, and she is left in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the crying of Lot 49. Pynchon's work has been compared to Joyce, Beckett, Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut, and carries the same brand of rich satire, chaotic brilliance and wild humour.
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The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1974
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- (Paperback),
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- Titel
- The Crying of Lot 49
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Thomas Pynchon
- Verlag
- Penguin Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1974
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 139
- ISBN10
- 0140037330
- ISBN13
- 9780140037333
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Krimi, Humor, Gegenwartsliteratur, USA, 20. Jahrhundert, Amerikanische Literatur, Novellen, Satire, Verschwörung, Kalifornien, 60er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
- Beschreibung
- Oedipa Maas arrives home from a party to discover she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. This sets her on a strange trail of detection which leads to a secret postal system of outcasts called W.A.S.T.E. Bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse Oedipa in her search: Dr Hilarius, the sinister face-pulling psychoanalyst; Metzger, the child actor turned lawyer; and the eminent philatelist, Genghis Cohen, who likes sex with the news on. But gradually death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to rob Oedipa of her companions, and she is left in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the crying of Lot 49. Pynchon's work has been compared to Joyce, Beckett, Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut, and carries the same brand of rich satire, chaotic brilliance and wild humour.