[Pynchon has] defined for me, especially in Gravity’s Rainbow, what a novel can do, what ‘the point’ of deep, sustained attention to a long fiction can be. Jeff Severs The organizer of the International Pynchon Week: a “good Pynchonian”! Jeffrey Severs, who organizes the 2022 International Pynchon Week (IPW) in Vancouver, BC, Canada, grew up and […]
The International Pynchon Week 2022
IPW brings together the world’s leading producers of market pulp, suppliers, financial analysts, logistic companies, and their customers for a first-class informational and networking opportunity. IPW 2022 The IPW in Vancouver – “Pulp” or “Pynchon”? Honestly, if you were a participant in this year’s IPW, you might encounter some references to pulp fiction, you might […]
Klaus Buhlert’s “acoustic version of a road movie”
Pynchon erzählt […] über ‘alles’ in der Welt: Auflösung, Anarchie, Gesetzlosigkeit, Macht und Kontrolle, vom Kampf um Freiheit und Identität, von der Dominanz gnadenloser Technologie. Interview with Klaus Buhlert, by Gitta Deutz Pynchon tells us about ‘everything’: about dissolution, anarchy, lawlessness, power and control, about the fight for freedom and identity, about the dominance of […]
Gravity’s Rainbow scored page for page
Dem Dichter ergeht es genauso wie einem Musiker, der von vier Stimmen einen Gesang singen lässt, in dem zuerst der Sopran, dann der Tenor, darauf der Alt und nach ihm der Bass singt […]. Leonardo da Vinci, between 1495-1499 / 1990: 142 The poet is like a musician who lets four voices sing a song […]
Umberto Rossi and Paolo Simonetti on Pynchon and the “IPW” in Rome
I’d really like to see someone in the States offering to host the next IPW. All the IPWs have been held in Europe, but I do believe it’s time that Tom gets back home. Umberto Rossi 2019 Rossi & Simonetti talk about their personal Pynchon experiences and organizing the IPW in Rome Earlier this year, […]
“Pynchon” in Rome
Dumque suis victrix septembre de montibus orbe prospiciet domitum Martia Roma, legar. As long as Rome, City of Mars, from its seven hills looks down upon a world conquered, people will read me. Ovid (43 BC – AD 17), Tristien III 7, 51f. (translation by Utz Klöppelt) The International Pynchon Week in Rome Consider the […]