Stalking the Behemoth: "Gravity's Rainbow," by Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow By Thomas Pynchon, 1973 Reviewed by Chris Schahfer If you ask the literary community, Gravity's Rainbow is among the major literary events of the twentieth century. It's the postmodern or at minimum post-World War II answer to Joyce. The book's shadow might be longer than anything else with the "postmodern" label. The one with hundreds of characters and absurdly long sentences and mind-boggling tonal shifts, the one that's been labeled "unreadable" and "pretentious" and "ob...