“From Faraway California”: Thomas Pynchon’s Aesthetics of Space in the California Trilogy
Ali Dehdarirad
Sep 2023 · Materiali e documenti Book 98 · Sapienza Università Editrice
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Offering a transdisciplinary journey across Thomas Pynchon’s California trilogy, “From Faraway California” addresses the representation of (city)space in the Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice through “geourban” lenses. Drawing on specific concepts in urban and regional studies, the book provides a thorough examination of Pynchon’s spatial imaginary, where the reader comes to understand how his fiction tackles the socio-political and cultural consequences of urban restructuring in the contemporary city and the lives of its citizens. Pynchon’s depiction of California is further analyzed from mythical and environmental standpoints to shed light on his planetary vision and (post)postmodernist poetics in the span of nearly half a century.
More broadly, the book’s geocritical and urban analyses of Pynchon’s fiction indicate what might take place concerning the future of urbanism, toward “planetary urbanization” and the formation of the “city region.”
About the author
Ali Dehdarirad currently teaches American literature and culture at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he obtained his Ph.D. in English-language Literatures, with a focus on American literature. He has published critical essays on the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, William T. Vollmann, Cormac McCarthy, and Paul Auster. His main research interests include (post)postmodernist and contemporary American literature, urban humanities, geocriticism, California studies, the Anthropocene, and the sustainability discourse.
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