"V" by Thomas Pynchon?

Question

I just finished reading Thomas Pynchon's first novel, "V". I feel like I missed a lot and would like to read more about it. Can anyone reccomend a free website with annalysis, synopsis and explanation of the book?

i have already googled and checked out "hyperarts.com/pynchon/v". that page is just a definition of terms but has no analysis and google hasn't turned up anything useful.

Answer 1

Try hyperarts.com/pynchon/v

Else try input "Thomas Pynchon" andV. into Google.

You feel that you missed a lot because Pychon has such a dense web of background material in his work.

There is a perfectly awful joke about the five Argentine ranch owner Jones brothers called "the cinco Jones." This draws on such famous historical characters as Pedro O'Higgins with nonhispanic names. It is also a pun on how you divide Spanish words.

There is a harrowing but authentic description of a "nose job," plus an accurate history of plastic surgery starting with wounds suffered in world war 1.

And there is Pynchon's philosophy that the 20th century was so awful that it couldn't all have just "happened," and that there must "almost" have been a personification of the evil in the person of the recurring "V."

I urge you to go on to "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Gravity's Rainbow."