Blissful Bewilderment

Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) is considered one of the greatest Anglo-American novelists of our time and arguably the most important since James Joyce. His amazingly rich, multifarious and original works of literature have been a major interest for especially American scholars for decades, and his novels have also attained cult status in a wider cultural context. Pynchon's oeuvre consists of a collection of short stories, Slow Learner (1984), and five novels. His debut novel, V. (1963) is said to be one of the most masterful first novels in the history of literature; the second novel, The Crying of Lot 49, was published in 1967; Gravity's Rainbow (1973) ranks among the most complex and challenging literary novels ever written; by comparison, Vineland (1991) is an easy read. With his last novel, Mason & Dixon (1997), Pynchon has once again provided readers with puzzles and intellectual challenges for years to come.

Blissful Bewilderment: Studies in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon is the first book-length study on Pynchon to be published outside of the UK and the US since 1993. The essays in the collection cover all of Pynchon's works, representing a wide variety of perspectives and approaches. Thus, the book will be of interest for academic readers, as well as for those not yet acquainted with Thomas Pynchon's strange universe.

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