Thomas Pynchon

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

약력

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."

참여 작품

Chryskylodon Blues
Writer
On the set of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice.
인히어런트 바이스
Novel
항상 약에 취해있고 추상적인 자기애를 가지고 있는 무기력한 사설 탐정 닥(호아킨 피닉스). 어느 날 그의 전 여자친구 샤스타(캐서린 워터스턴)가 갑작스레 사라진다. 실종되기 얼마 전 닥을 찾아왔던 샤스타는 그에게 뜬금없는 스토리를 이야기 해주며 도움을 청한다. 그녀와 현재 교제 중인 부동산 거물인 미키 울프맨의 부인과 그녀의 내연남이 울프맨을 납치하여 정신병원에 가두려는 음모를 꾸민다는 것이다. 샤스타의 말처럼 며칠 후 미키 울프맨은 사라지고, 그 직후 샤스타도 사라진 것. 일은 꼬이고, 이제 닥은 전 여자친구의 실종 사건을 둘러싼 미스터리를 해결하려 하는데...
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.