'Inherent Vice': Thomas Pynchon beyond the Postmodern Fiction and Anti-Detective Novel
| Autor: | Antonio Di Vilio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Literature
050101 languages & linguistics business.industry postmodern fiction media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Art detective fiction Thomas Pynchon 060202 literary studies Postmodernism anti-detective novel Detective fiction noir 0602 languages and literature noir detective fiction Thomas Pynchon anti-detective novel postmodernism postmodern fiction 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business postmodernism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne. 47:283-294 |
| ISSN: | 2544-8900 1640-7806 |
| DOI: | 10.36770/bp.483 |
| Popis: | This article analyzes the development of noir genre in Inherent Vice written by Thomas Pynchon in 2009. In fact, this novel seems to be a time of reflection about all shifts and changes of detective fiction, starting from the Californian hard-boiled school and the postmodern anti-detective fiction to the contemporary noir. In Inherent Vice Pynchon shows his awareness and considerations about the genre tradition – to which some of his novels such as The Crying of Lot 49 belong– playing out a thought-provoking parodic representation of the detective story and its doom. This paper aims to decrypt the meaning of the references that Inherent Vice contains about noir genre and to detect what is the position of the author in writing this novel. |
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