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AGAINST THE DAY Salem Press(对萨勒姆出版社的那一天)
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AGAINST THE DAY
Author: Thomas Pynchon (1939- )
Publisher: Penguin Press (New York). 1,085 pp. $35.00
Type of work: Novel
Time: 1893 to the early 1920’s
Locale: The United States, Europe, Mexico, Shambhala,
and the Center of the Earth
Pynchon’s first novel in nearly a decade, and his lon-
gest, offers a fictional counterculture history of the West-
ern world immediately before and after World War I
Principal characters:
Lew Basnight, a “psychical” private
detective
Randolph St. Cosmo, the commander of
the sky ship Inconvenience
Yashmeen Halfcourt, a mathematician working with a group of Lon-
don Pythagoreans
Deuce Kindred, a hired gun who kills Webb Traverse then marries his
daughter
Webb Traverse, a miner, labor organizer, and “anarchist”
Frank Traverse, Webb’s son, a mining engineer
Kit Traverse, Webb’s brilliant son, sent to Yale by Scarsdale Vibe
Reef Traverse, Webb’s ne’er-do-well son
Lake Traverse, Webb’s daughter, marries her father’s killer
Scarsdale Vibe, a capitalist mine owner who orders the death of Webb
Traverse
Natalia Eskimoff, a medium
Penny Black, an aviatrix
Darby Suckling, the Chums of Chance ship’s “mascotte”
Everything that Thomas Pynchon’s critics have loved about his first five novels is
in his sixth, Against the Day . Everything that his critics have hated about his novels is
there, too. Both lists usually contain the same four or five items. The novels sprawl; at
1,085 pages,Against the Day is longer than any of its lengthy predecessors. They con-
tain countless chara
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