I nuovi romanzi di Thomas Pynchon (ancora untitled) e William T. Vollmann ("Poor people") usciranno a fine anno e sono già ordinabili su Amazon.

Amazon aveva pubblicato una prima descrizione del romanzo di Pynchon (piuttosto diversa dai rumors finora circolati), che poi è stata tolta dal sito (non si sa perché). Eccola: "Spanning the period between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years
just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado
to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna,
the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska
Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood,
and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.
"With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of
unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and
evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or
should be inferred.
"The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers,
corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents,
mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians,
spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo
appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
"As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an
unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue
their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives
that pursue them.
"Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what
they’re doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange
sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always
idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the
world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two.
According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
"Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck."
Thomas Pynchon

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