Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails

[Dave Monroe]

Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails
Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Thomas Pynchon’s V.

Editor(s):Paolo Simonetti, Umberto Rossi

Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails marks the first in-depth examination of
Pynchon’s debut novel, which was immediately recognized as a
breakthrough masterpiece. The eight essays collected in the volume
provide both scholars and avid readers with new and original insights
into a too-often underestimated work that, probably even more than
Gravity’s Rainbow, established Pynchon as one of the great masters of
twentieth-century American literature.

This book deliberately privileges a multidisciplinary and
transnational approach, encompassing collaborations from a
particularly international and diverse academic context. As such, this
volume offers a multifaceted pattern of expanding investigation that
tackles the novel’s apparently chaotic but meticulously organized
structure by rereading it in the light of recent US and European
history and economics, as well as by exploring its many real and
imagined locations. Not only are the essays brought together here
revelatory of Pynchon’s way of working, but they also tell us
something about our own ways of approaching his fiction.

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