Pynchon mention

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/arts/09NOTE.html

October 9, 2001

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK


The Age of Irony Isn't Over After All


By MICHIKO KAKUTANI


[...] Nuclear fears and cold war qualms were also reflected in Stanley
Kubrick's dazzling black comedy, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964), and three innovative and influential
novels that shared a World War II backdrop and an absurdist sense of
history: Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" (1961), which suggested that we are
living in a world where sanity is madness and madness is sanity; Kurt
Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969), which employed satire and science
fiction as narrative strategies to recount the horrors of the bombing of
Dresden; and Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973), which depicted a
nightmarish world in love with death and torn between acute paranoia and
fears of random chaos. [...]



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