Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow
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<DIV>Thomas Pynchon's <I>Gravity's Rainbow</I> (1973), set in an alternative-universe version of World War II, has been called a modern <I>Finnegan's Wake</I> for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With <I>Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow,</I> artist Zak Smith at once eases and expands readers' experience of the book. A leading exponent of punk-based, DIY art, Smith here presents his most ambitious project to date ? an art book exactly as long as the work it's interpreting: 760 drawings, paintings, photos, and less definable images in 760 pages. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of war ? a burned-out Königstiger tank, a melted machine gun ? coexist alongside such phantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the ?stumbling bird” and ?Girgori the octopus.” Smith has stated his aim to be ?as literal as possible” in interpreting <I>Gravity's Rainbow,</I> but his images are as imaginative and powerfully unique as the prose they honor.</DIV>
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