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Thomas Pynchon

出生 : 1937-05-08, Long Island, New York, USA

略歴

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American author/writer. Upon graduation from CU., Pynchon had many options including teaching creative writing at Cornell, becoming a disk jockey, or a film critic for Esquire. "Gravity's Rainbow" was published in 1973. The year after it shared the National Book Award for fiction with Isaac Bashevis Singer's "A Crown of Feathers". It was also unanimously selected by the judges for the Pulitzer Prize in literature, but the selection was overruled by the Pulitzer advisory board whose members called it "unreadable," "turgid," "overwritten," and "obscene."

参加作品

Chryskylodon Blues

Writer

On the set of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice.

インヒアレント・ヴァイス

Novel

ロサンゼルスに住む、私立探偵のドックの前に、今も忘れられない元カノのシャスタが現れる。不動産王で大富豪の愛人になったシャスタはドックに、カレの妻とその恋人の悪だくみを暴いてほしいと依頼する。だが、捜査に踏み出したドックは殺人の濡れ衣を着せられ、大富豪もシャスタも失踪してしまう。ドックは巨額が動く土地開発に絡む、国際麻薬組織のきな臭い陰謀に引き寄せられていく。果たして、シャスタの行方は？この事件の先に“愛”はあるのか！？

Impolex

Writer

Impolex tells the story of Tyrone S., a United States soldier in Operation Paperclip, the mission to locate and retrieve German rockets and rocket science after the end of World War II. Tyrone is tasked with finding what he believes are the last V-2’s. Lost in the woods of an undefined European country, people from Tyrone’s past begin to appear in unusual ways, bearing strange tidings. A loved one he abandoned for the war is especially prominent in Tyrone’s journey, as is a fellow soldier and a mysterious man with tidings of the present and the future that are not yet known to Tyrone.

Thomas Pynchon: A Journey Into the Mind of P.

Writer

Thomas Pynchon is a best-selling American novelist, who, unlike the vast majority of his peers, has eschewed the limelight with near-fanatical determination since the 1960s. This film compiles testimonies and evidence culled from Pynchon's fans and colleagues, investigating the enigmatic writer's background and speculating on his motivations.

Prüfstand VII

Novel

Prüfstand VII is a 2002 German docudrama film directed by Robert Bramkamp, about the V2 rocket and the rocket research in the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The film deals with the history of ideas surrounding the rocket research and the conquest of space, with Bianca as the spirit of the rocket guiding the viewer around different aspects of rocket research. It is partly inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow and features dramatization of some selected scenes from the novel.

Vineland

Novel

Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc.