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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. , es un escritor estadounidense, considerado uno de los novelistas más célebres de la actualidad. Se destaca tanto por su narrativa compleja y laberíntica como por su aversión a los medios . Su obra está compuesta de ocho novelas: V. , La subasta del lote 49 , El arco iris de gravedad , Vineland , Mason y Dixon , Contraluz , Vicio propio , Al límite ; y un libro de cuentos titulado Un lento aprendizaje .

Se le considera actualmente como una de las voces más importantes del posmodernismo maximalista. Su novela más destacada, El arco iris de gravedad fue rechazada por el jurado del Premio Pulitzer por considerarla obscena y ganó el National Book Award; ajeno a la polémica, el autor mandó a recoger el premio a un comediante. A la prosa de Pynchon la han catalogado de diversas maneras aunque no le han negado la trascendental importancia que tiene en la literatura de fin de Siglo XX. Es citado periódicamente como candidato al Premio Nobel de Literatura. El crítico Harold Bloom citó a Thomas Pynchon como uno de los más grandes novelistas estadounidenses de su tiempo junto a Don DeLillo, Philip Roth y Cormac McCarthy. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. mayo 1937
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Frases célebres de Thomas Pynchon

“Es el cálido, romántico verano de 1945 y, con rendición o sin ella, persiste el culto de la muerte: acaba de perpetrarse lo que la Abuelita llamaba «un crimen pasional», la técnica preferida en nuestros días para resolver disputas interpersonales, a falta de pasión por cualquier otro aspecto de la vida.”

Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow

“Déjeme ser claro. Prefiero no ser fotografiado.”

Thomas Pynchon

Llamada telefónica a la CNN como se informó en un artículo de la CNN (5 de junio de 1997). http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9706/05/pynchon/

“El mundo tiene la culpa, no porque sea intrínsecamente bueno o malo o nada, sino por lo que es, porque no nos preparamos en nada excepto para llevarse bien con el cuerpo.”

Thomas Pynchon

Carta a Jules Siegel, publicado en la revista Cavalier (Agosto de 1965); vuelto a publicar en "Pynchon notes 15" and " "The World is at Fault" http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_World_is_at_Fault at pynchonwiki.com http://pynchonwiki.com/

“Esta es su cita: "A Thomas Pynchon le encantó este libro, casi tanto como ama las cámaras!"
¡Cómo por aquí! ¡Ha tomado una foto con un autor solitario! Sólo hoy, ¡vamos a dar un autógrafo gratis! Pero espere, ¡hay más!”

Thomas Pynchon

Interpretándose a sí mismo (representado con una bolsa de papel sobre su cabeza) en un episodio de Los Simpson, Diatriba de un ama de casa loca.

“Pienso que solitario es una palabra codificada generada por los periodistas… significa que no me gusta hablar con los periodistas.”

Thomas Pynchon

Llamada telefónica a la CNN (5 de junio de 1997).

“¿Por qué las cosas deberían ser fáciles de entender?”

Thomas Pynchon

Respuesta de Pynchon a Jules Siegel sobre la complejidad de V., en el artículo "Who Is Thomas Pynchon... And Why Did He Take Off With My Wife?", Playboy (Marzo de 1977)

Thomas Pynchon Frases y Citas

“ay jalisco, no te rejas”

Thomas Pynchon libro Against the Day

Against the Day

“Tío, quiero morirme, es lo único que quiero -gritó Ploy.
- ¿No sabes -dijo Dahoud- que la vida es el bien más preciado que tienes?
- Jo, jo -soltó Ploy entre lágrimas-. ¿Y eso por qué?
- Pues porque sin ella -dijo Dahoud- estarías muerto.
- Ah -dijo Ploy.”

Thomas Pynchon

V.

“¿Y qué quieres?, ¿es que sólo tengo que fiarme de las buenas personas?, tío, a las buenas personas las compran y las venden todos los días. Tanto da que me fíe de algún auténtico cabrón de vez en cuando, al final viene a ser lo mismo. Quiero decir que no apostaría por ninguno de los dos.”

Thomas Pynchon libro Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice

“Yo no escribí esas cartas. Ha sido un rumor extendido del que no tenido nada que ver. Siento que se haya extendido en la forma que se ha hecho.”

Thomas Pynchon

Sobre los rumores de que había escrito varias cartas a un periódico con el nombre de Wanda Tinasky, en una llamada telefónica a la CNN (5 de junio de 1997).

“A todo el mundo se le dice que escriba acerca de lo que conoce. El problema para muchos de nosotros es que en la juventud creemos saberlo todo o, por decirlo de un modo más útil, con frecuencia desconocemos el alcance y la estructura de nuestra ignorancia, la cual no es sólo un espacio en blanco en el mapa mental de una persona, sino que tiene contornos y coherencia y, por lo que sé, también tiene sus normas”.”

Thomas Pynchon libro Lento aprendizaje

Slow Learner: Early Stories

Thomas Pynchon: Frases en inglés

“Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro Inherent Vice

Fuente: Inherent Vice

“Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro Bleeding Edge

Variante: Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen
Fuente: Bleeding Edge (2013), p. 11

“… as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro Inherent Vice

Fuente: Inherent Vice

“The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Fuente: Gravity's Rainbow

“The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Fuente: Gravity's Rainbow

“You can only cruse the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro Inherent Vice

Fuente: Inherent Vice

“This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro The Crying of Lot 49

Fuente: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

“I want to break out — to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become….”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“"Arrh! Stars and Mud, ever conjugate, a Paradox to consider, — one…for the Astronomer-Royal, perhaps?" His current scheme being, to assail Maskelyne's Sanity, by now and then posing to him Questions that will not bear too much cogitating upon, — most lately, Über Bernouillis Brachistochronsprobleme, 1702 by Baron von Boppdörfer ("Mind like a Spanish Blade. Read it at the Risk of your Self-Esteem.") having almost done the Trick.”

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Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon

Fuente: Mason & Dixon (1997), Chapter 74

“She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth; and she thought of the time she’d opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit. The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate. There’d seemed no limit to what the printed circuit could have told her (if she had tried to find out); so in her first minute of San Narciso, a revelation also trembled just past the threshold of her understanding.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro The Crying of Lot 49

Fuente: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 1

“Tibet is a special case. Tibet was deliberately set aside by the Empire as free and neutral territory, a Switzerland for the spirit where there is no extradition, and Alp-Himalayas to draw the soul upward, and danger rare enough to tolerate.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“A million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“The illustrations were woodcuts, executed with that crude haste to see the finished product that marks the amateur. True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

“Strangely the tumescence began to subside, the flesh at his neck to pale. Any sovereign or broken yo-yo must feel after a short time lying inert, rolling, falling: suddenly to have its hands it cannot escape. Hands it doesn’t want to escape. Know that the simple clockwork of itself has no more need for symptoms of inutility, lonesomeness, directionlessness, because now it has a path marked out for it over which it has no control. That’s what the feeling would be, if there were such things as animate yo-yos.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro V.

Fuente: V. (1963), Chapter Eight

“Who has sent this new serpent into our ruinous garden, already too fouled, too crowded to qualify as any locus of innocence — unless innocence be our age's neutral, our silent passing into the machineries of indifference — something that Kekulé's Serpent had come to — not to destroy, but to define to us the loss of… we had been given certain molecules, certain combinations and not others… we used what we found in Nature, unquestioning, shamefully perhaps — but the Serpent whispered, 'They can be changed, and new molecules assembled from the debris of the given…. ' Can anyone tell me what else he whispered to us? Come — who knows?”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“If America was a person, — and it sat down, — Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.”

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Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon

Fuente: Mason & Dixon (1997), Chapter 66

“Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneaker and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro V.

First lines
V. (1963)

“Flotsam from his childhood are rising through his attention. He's remembering the skin of an apple, bursting with nebulae, a look into curved reddening space.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“"The edge of evening … the long curve of people all wishing on the first star…. Always remember those men and women along the thousands of miles of land and sea. The true moment of shadow is the moment in which you see the point of light in the sky. The single point, and the Shadow that has just gathered you in its sweep …"
Always remember.
The first star hangs between his feet.
Now”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

““Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person’s time line sideways till they all coincide.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro The Crying of Lot 49

Fuente: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 5, Mucho Maas

“Have you ever fall'n into one of those Cometary Dazes, with the way the Object grows brighter and brighter each night? These Apparitions in the Sky, we never observe them but in Motion, — gone in seconds, and if they return, we do not see them. Once safely a part of the Night Sky, they may hang there at their Pleasure, performing whatever their Work corresponds to shifting jibs and stay-sails, keeping perfectly upon Station, mimicking any faint, unnam'd Star you please. Do they watch us? Are they visits from the past, from an Age of Faith, when Miracles still literally happen'd?”

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Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon

Fuente: Mason & Dixon (1997), Chapter 74

“It can get pretty fascist in here…”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“I did not write those letters. This has been a hoax that I've had nothing to do with. I'm sorry it's gone on as long as it has.”

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Thomas Pynchon

On the rumors that he had written a series of letters to a newspaper using the name Wanda Tinasky, in a phone call to CNN (5 June 1997)

“Merle's all-night illumination prolonged itself into an inescapable glow that began to keep him awake.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro Against the Day

Fuente: Against the Day (2006), p. 65

“For a boy not getting any he had more woman problems than anybody he knew.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro V.

V. (1963)

“In Mexico City they somehow wandered into an exhibition of paintings by the beautiful Spanish exile Remedios Varo: in the central painting of a triptych, titled “Bordando el Manto Terrestre,” were a number of frail girls with heart-shaped faces, huge eyes, spun-gold hair, prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in the tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro The Crying of Lot 49

Fuente: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 1

“You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro The Crying of Lot 49

Fuente: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 5

“It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice — guessed and refused to believe — that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children….”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“She watches Marvy's face as he pays Monika, watches him in this primal American act, paying, more deeply himself than when coming, or asleep, or maybe even dying.”

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Thomas Pynchon libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

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