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When published in 1973, Gravityâs Rainbow expanded our sense of what the novel could be. Pynchonâs extensive references to modern science, history, and culture challenged any reader, while his prose bent the rules for narrative art and his satirical practices taunted U.S. obscenity and pornography statutes. His writing thus enacts freedom even as the bookâs great theme is domination: humanityâs diminished âchances for freedomâ in a global military-industrial system birthed and set on its feet in World War II. Its symbol: the V-2 rocket.
âGravityâs Rainbow,â Domination, and Freedom broadly situates Pynchonâs novel in âlong sixtiesâ history, revealing a fiction deeply of and about its time. Herman and Weisenburger put the novelâs abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation, and subtle new means of social and psychological control. They show the textâs close indebtedness to critiques of domination by key postwar thinkers such as Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Hannah Arendt. They detail equally powerful ways that sixties countercultural practicesâfree-speech resistance played out in courts, campuses, city streets, and raucously satirical underground pressworkâprovide a clearer bearing on Pynchonâs own satirical practices and their implicit criticisms.
If the System has jacketed humanity in a total domination, may not a solitary individual still assert freedom? Or has the System captured allâeven supposedly immune elitesâin an irremediable dominion? Reading Pynchonâs main characters and storylines, this study realizes a darker Gravityâs Rainbow than critics have been willing to see.
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