/lit/ - Literature

You understand Slothrop's map was made up right? That his erections didn't match up with rocket strikes? You were paying attention—?

Has anything ever come close since?

>>21624996
Kino incoming

What am I in for?

Why is Slothrop following the S-Gerat after he escapes "The White Visitation" and Pointsman's hire spies?

Is it just reflexes from the Jampf crap?

>Your task, in these dreams, is often to pens.

Holy...! what a frickin' genius

>>20573326
weird, he def wasn't a stem guy
it def can be a mushy mess when you dont know wtf he's talking about
and there are def passages that either barely make sense...
or just do not make sense
can't blame you
do you remember anything else? just curious where it was effective

For anyone intimidated by Gravity's Rainbow or feeling like they understand very little of what they're reading, just keep at it. I read it last year having read only Crying of Lot 49, and I felt the same way. I just let the book wash over me, and didn't agonize over not understanding certain sequences or understated elements of the plot. I still really enjoyed the book, its humor, its prose, its style in general, even though I felt the whole way through like I didn't have a proper grasp of what was going on. After I finished it I read the sparknotes summary of the book, and on a high-level I understood 90% of the plot, and only missed out on a couple "important" details.

There's already a game for people who read Gravity's Rainbow, it's Disco Elysium. The only Pynchon-esque game

There is this thing Pynchon does where he sort of speaks to the reader in a more aggressive and direct manner. The reader is no longer an invisible observer. I'm just noticing it and wandering if there are more instances of it in the book that I have not noticed. Often these come at times when the story takes a hopeful direction.

from the first page or second maybe in Pirate's dream
>You didn’t really believe you’d be saved. Come, we all know who we are by now. No one was ever going to take the trouble to save you, old fellow.

and later in Part 2 about Katje and Slothrope
>But here's only her old residual bitterness again, and they are not, after all, to be lovers in parachutes of sunlit voile, lapsing gently, hand in hand, down to anything meadowed and calm. Surprised?

>>17018737

I suspect the translation was done purely to justify publishing a book with this glorious cover

The Japanese cover is Kino

The Japanese cover for Gravity's Rainbow is the best book cover I've ever seen

Can we have an old-school Gravity's Rainbow thread? I've been putting off trying Pynchon for years, mostly because I was afraid I would find in incomprehensible. I read The Crying of Lot 49 in a couple days and really enjoyed it, so I just jumped into GR. I'm about a third of the way through it and I'm finding it really great. My comprehension of what's going on is probably the bare minimum to not be entirely lost (and obviously there are innumerable references that flying over my head), but from an aesthetic point of view it's a really fantastic book that just kind of washes over you. The imagery is some of the best I've ever read (his use of color is fantastic) and the prose is also really really good. It's also funny as hell- the scene where Slothrop is trying the British candy was hilarious. Overall I'm glad I waited so long before reading it, since without an appreciation for prose the whole thing might have been too much for me to enjoy it. Though I'm only about halfway through and there's plenty of time for it to become too incomprehensible.
Pic related is its cover in Japan, absolutely peak aesthetics. Wish I could get the english version with that cover.

The japanese cover for Gravity's Rainbow.

I'm going to drop some of my favorites. Post yours.

Hi /lit/, would you give me some authors who masterfully describe cities? What's the best way of doing it? Recurring to description of streets and architecture? Describing it to newcomers or to inhabitants?

>>12257209
Japanese might be the only ones who did it right