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＜p＞＜em＞Vineland＜/em＞ is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon’s return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic ＜em＞Gravity’s Rainbow＜/em＞, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked ＜em＞Vineland＜/em＞ opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Beginning with his early besotted encounters with ＜em＞Vineland＜/em＞, Coviello reads Pynchon’s offbeat novel of sixties insurgents stranded in the Reaganite summer of 1984 as a delirious stoner comedy that is simultaneously a work of heartsick fury and political grief: a portrait of the hard afterlives of failed revolution in a period of stifling reaction. Offering a roving meditation on the uses of criticism and the practice of friendship, the fashioning of publics and counterpublics, the sentence and the police, Coviello argues that ＜em＞Vineland＜/em＞ is among the most abundant and far-sighted of late-century American excursions into novelistic possibility. Departing from visions of Pynchon as the arch-postmodernist, erudite and obscure, he discloses an author far more companionable and humane. In Pynchon’s harmonizing of joyousness and outrage, comedy and sorrow, Coviello finds a model for thinking through our catastrophic present.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。