- Taschenbuch: 492 Seiten
- Verlag: Picador; Auflage: New edition (22. August 1975)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0330242822
- ISBN-13: 978-0330242820
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,7 x 3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (14 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 243.795 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V., who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.
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This was my first exposure to Pynchon and it was a bit surprising, well aware of his infamous reputation as a difficult read I found myself having no trouble at all reading this book. With the exception of a few passages, it reads rather quickly. It reminded me more of "On the Road" than "Ulysses" in terms of prose. However what is difficult about this book is not the actually text of it but the symbolism, the metaphors, the allegory. Also, it is one of those books where a character is mentioned but may not appear again for another hundred pages, making it difficult to remember all of them. It was an extremely enjoyable book though, much funnier than I expected and is one of the few books that had me wanting to re-read it as soon as I was finished, convinced there was more to pick up from it. While I do not think that this book is as symbolically significant as some previous reviews would have you believe, it certainly does "leave the imagination spent and the mind reeling." Most impressive of all is the fact that Pynchon was in his early twenties when he wrote this, a testament to his staggering ability. This is a book (and an author) well deserving of its reputation!
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Brilliant writer, amazing complexity, symbolism galore. Call me crazy, isn't readability supposed to enter in here somewhere. Its just not an enjoyable read. Having read other great 20th century writers like Mahfouz, Kawabata, Marquez, Saramago, Hesse(to name a few), I find this book unreadable and fragmented. I get that Pynchon is brilliant but in my opinion his brilliance is gained at the sacrifice of simple good story telling. Can't there be a marriage of the two? Maybe it captures the essence of 20 th century apathy, but I found myself not caring a lick what happened to any of the characters or the plot. Ultimately causing me to set the book aside.
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Pynchon's colossal first novel is a vast array of metaphoric dimensions. The quest for V takes on various meanings operating on different levels of consciouness, social strata and commentary, archtypal memory of mythic scope, and subconscious enlightened paranaoia. Pynchon's stream-of-consciousness writing marks a very dense but liquid composition.
Dealing with the various absurdities of life Benny Profane the initial character goes thru post war wayward derelict adventures with a bunch of misfits - the sick crew. From there on the novel takes on multiple personalities, viewpoints being passed around like a hot potato on onion skinned palms. Ending up mostly in Stencil's (Benny's friend) convoluted mysterious filial past, searching for his father's woman V who wrecked a series incalculable effects on pre and post world war 2 pandemonia. You'll sometimes get lost in the multiplicity of characters, but the narrative energy carries you thru with magnanimous ambivalence and resonance.
The question of V is compounded with a multiplicity of meanings, Veronica, Vheissu, Valleta, Victoria ...Vater(father), a romance with Malta and Valleta, a city of inanimate and animate animosity, darkly pervading, a terrible reality of love lost in absurdity and existential angst... A sample passage in V:
" Were there in her the same memories of azaleas, or any sense that this city is a mockery, a promise always unfulfilled? Did we share anything? The deeper we sank into twilight, the less i knew. I did - so I argued - loved this woman with all there was in me to expadite, or make secure any love: but here it was love in a growing dark: giving out with no clear knowledge of how much was being lost, how much would ever be returned. Was she even seeing the same pavillion? Hearing the same children at the frontiers of our park: was she here in fact or like Paola - dear God, not even our child but Valleta's - out alone, vibrating like a shadow in some street where the light is too clear, the horizon too sharp to be anything but a street created out of the sickness of the past, for the Malta that was and can never be again ! "
Always prevalent in the tale was the question of animateness and inanimateness. 20th century existential thought unquestionably suffuses the novel. It's Pynchon's equivalence of Sartre's 'for-itself' and 'in-itself' respectively, the benevolent 'nothing' and the cruel 'thing'- being and nothingness; in which people turn in to things and things and places are more alive than people. A changing of the guards that consumates the present century's alienation with itself.
Absolutely, one staggerring monument of dense moral and absurd parables, endlessly armed with symbolic philter to 'poison' the imagination to burst and wax brightly and darkly, a decadence of pure fury, a mirror of our times and sometimes convoluted minds. Simply awesome.
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Wire We Hear
As a poor schlemiel seeking meaning in the mysteries of the human experience, I read V after having felt that my senses had been affected by the experience of reading Gravity's... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. April 2000 von Robert Rudawsky
A Concept Book
Mark Twain defined a classic as a book nobody had read but one everybody wanted to have had read - in other words, to have it out of the way. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. März 2000 von Peter Marcus
The Systemized Dehumanization of Society
As far as I'm concerned, V, the enigmatic understated protagonist in Pynchon's first novel defies pigeonholing, and those readers who expect to be paid off for simply moving their... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Februar 2000 von Steve Fisch
A tremendous work
The key to the book is to be very flexible in terms of character development and narrative. You won't find a straight-forward, linear narrative. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Dezember 1999 von Matthew K. Kerfoot
Read almost anything else by him
As somebody who holds Gravity's Rainbow in the highest regard - and no, I'm not in higher education - I have to admit that this one defeated me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. November 1999 veröffentlicht
A flawed proto-masterpiece
Pynchon's V is about connections, webs that ensnare the totality of human behavior, and although it is often too disconnected itself to maintain its narrative drive, it does have... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
tortured, incoherent, nihilistic
Pure evil flaunting its hellish, ravening maw
Veröffentlicht am 22. August 1999 von S. Clark
Unrewarding masterpiece
Pynchon's first novel is an awkward concept piece which introduces us to some of the major themes of his later work: paranoia, entropy, alternative societies, mysterious recurring... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Juli 1999 von M. E Mattson
Jesus...can't anyone else appreciate a masterpiece???
Yeah, yeah there are plenty of poor souls seeking to put down a work so well done just because it was actually above them. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
V. Is Brisk, Intelligent and beautiful
"Gravity's Rainbow..." TP can't escape that novel, as all wannabe intellectuals read up on that and Ulyseuss (or Wake, take yur pick). Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Mai 1999 von ethan porter (bigjesus15@hotmail.com)
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