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Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, "Gravity's Rainbow", refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. "Gravity's Rainbow", however, doesn't follow such a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. "Gravity's Rainbow" is a blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes.
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いわゆるポストモダンに分類される小説は、自分には面白さが分からないのだな、と思う。ヴォネガットも日本の高橋なんたらという人も駄目だったが、ピンチョンも無理だ。無責任なことを言うようだが、彼らを面白いと思える人なら、ピンチョンは相当楽しめるのではないか。
以下、自分の感受性の鈍さを棚に上げて言う。ピンチョンが現代文学の最高峰と言われるとき、必ず知識の豊饒さとページごとに詰め込まれた情報量の凄さとが称賛されるわけだが、私はこの部分に少しも感銘を受けないのだ。それは確かに大したものだけれど、平板な知識であって、なんというか有機的に発展していかない。知識なんてくだらないものだ。それに、そういう情報に拘泥するあまり、一番肝心な人間に対する洞察力が不足していると感じてしまう。私なら、もっと無知だが人間を素直に追求した日本の私小説作家を高く買う。
もしかしたら彼の細かな知識は、作品の背景の時代的雰囲気を作るために重要なのかもしれない。たとえば大正期の作品を読むとおのずからその時代の味わいが立ち上るものだ。そういう部分を私は関知できていない可能性はある。先に読んだいくつかの翻訳本から、そういったことが感じられなかったので、最高傑作と言われるこれは原文に挑戦したのだが、やはり感じ取れなかった。英語力の不足かもしれないし、アメリカ人にしか分からないことなのかもしれない。私は自分がいい読み手であるとは言わないが、もし私にその部分が読み取れないとしたら、やはり日本人の大部分にとっては読み取れないだろうと思う。結果として、楽しむことができにくいだろうと思う。
メタ構造を解釈によって探り出すことが好まれる（エヴァ。笑）風潮からすると、これが現代文学の在り方として、好評価であることも納得できる。ただ、行き詰まりと言われる文学にもしこの先があるなら、ピンチョンとは違う方向になるはずだと思う。少なくとも、このアイデアなら、ボルヘスみたいに短編で書くべき。
以下、自分の感受性の鈍さを棚に上げて言う。ピンチョンが現代文学の最高峰と言われるとき、必ず知識の豊饒さとページごとに詰め込まれた情報量の凄さとが称賛されるわけだが、私はこの部分に少しも感銘を受けないのだ。それは確かに大したものだけれど、平板な知識であって、なんというか有機的に発展していかない。知識なんてくだらないものだ。それに、そういう情報に拘泥するあまり、一番肝心な人間に対する洞察力が不足していると感じてしまう。私なら、もっと無知だが人間を素直に追求した日本の私小説作家を高く買う。
もしかしたら彼の細かな知識は、作品の背景の時代的雰囲気を作るために重要なのかもしれない。たとえば大正期の作品を読むとおのずからその時代の味わいが立ち上るものだ。そういう部分を私は関知できていない可能性はある。先に読んだいくつかの翻訳本から、そういったことが感じられなかったので、最高傑作と言われるこれは原文に挑戦したのだが、やはり感じ取れなかった。英語力の不足かもしれないし、アメリカ人にしか分からないことなのかもしれない。私は自分がいい読み手であるとは言わないが、もし私にその部分が読み取れないとしたら、やはり日本人の大部分にとっては読み取れないだろうと思う。結果として、楽しむことができにくいだろうと思う。
メタ構造を解釈によって探り出すことが好まれる（エヴァ。笑）風潮からすると、これが現代文学の在り方として、好評価であることも納得できる。ただ、行き詰まりと言われる文学にもしこの先があるなら、ピンチョンとは違う方向になるはずだと思う。少なくとも、このアイデアなら、ボルヘスみたいに短編で書くべき。
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Advice For a First Time Reader of Gravity's Rainbow
2003/2/3
形式:ペーパーバック
Gravity's Rainbow is a book you either love or hate, and if you hate it it's probably because you couldn't finish the ... thing. Though by no means impenetrable, the novel is daunting enough to merit a list of tips for those wishing to tackle it for the first time. Below is my advice on how new readers can get over the hump. Trust me, it's a small hump, and the masterpiece that lies on the other side is worth the effort.
1. Read V first... Pynchon's V is shorter and more accessible than Gravity's Rainbow, but addresses the same themes in a similar style. If you enjoyed V, you will have built up a reserve of goodwill for Pynchon that will carry you through the initial rough patches of Gravity's Rainbow. This advice was given to me years ago, and I'm glad I took it.
2. Accept that you won't understand everything...Don't be concerned if you can't follow the many digressions or keep track of every minor character that pops up. As with other famously difficult novels, Gravity's Rainbow's real payoff comes in the rereading, so you shouldn't feel obliged to linger over each passage until it makes sense. Pynchon isn't trying to lord it over you by writing a book this dense; it's just his way of giving you your money's worth. Just follow what you can the first time through, which fortunately is a lot.
3. Accentuate the accessible...Gravity's Rainbow's unreadability is over-hyped. Yes, there are many jarring digressions, but threading through them is a fairly conventional detective story. Sure there are lyrical passages that take off for the stratosphere, but they are grace notes in a melody of otherwise breezy narrative prose. So on your first time through, it's enough to follow the main plot (will Slothrop find the mysterious Rocket 00000?) and enjoy Pynchon's jokes, which are laugh-out-loud funny.
4. Don't give up too early...I don't want to say that Gravity's Rainbow gets off to a slow start, but it has a lot of scene-setting to do, and the engine that really drives the book along only gets revved up in part 2. Part 1 is a well-executed minor key portrait of wartime London, but part 2 is where the drugs kick in, so stick with the novel at least that far.
93 人中、89人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Reviews of this book are basically pointless.
1997/8/13
形式:ペーパーバック
There are a number of reasons one might write a review of a book. Most of these reasons aren't all that helpful when it comes to Gravity's Rainbow.
One reason is to provide potential readers with a sense of the book (plot, structure, style, characterization). The best way to get a sense of Gravity's Rainbow is to read the first page. It basically goes on like that for another seven or eight hundred more.
Another reason is to enlighten the world with your sparkling insight into the subtlties of symbolism and layers of meaning in the book. With regard to Gravity's Rainbow, you can save that stuff for your weekly book club. The symbolism and layered meaning in GR are about as subtle as a rocket attack on a movie theater. This is why GR is often compared to Finnegan's Wake. If you've ever watched Joseph Campbell explain that novel, you realize that the search for deep intellectual insight is a conceit. These novels require your best effort just to understand the LITERAL stuff.
Another reason to review a book is to provide your own subjective opinion about the overall quality of the experience. I've found that many such GR reviews fall into one of two camps: "I read 'X' pages and couldn't/didn't finish it" or "Thomas Pynchon is God". The problem with reviews like this is that they say more about the meta-experience (sorry, but that is the appropriate word) of reading the book than they do about the book itself. Those of us who finish it are subject to a kind of "Iron John" machismo which falls apart if we are forced to admit that the whole thing might be a colossal put-on. On the other hand, those who give up can't help feeling that perhaps they are missing the big IT and don't like feeling that they might be unable to appreciate genius.
So is it the Emperor's New Clothes, or Pearls Before Swine?
It doesn't matter. The question is probably meaningless anyway.
If you like incredibly obscure cultural references, if you like dense imagery, if you like chilling portrayals of paranoia and the dire consequences to humans when people with power succumb to it and if you like conspiracy theory, you'll dig this book.
I do, so I did.
On the other hand, if you're hung up on little things like narrative structure, characterization, plot, etc., I'd stay away.
One reason is to provide potential readers with a sense of the book (plot, structure, style, characterization). The best way to get a sense of Gravity's Rainbow is to read the first page. It basically goes on like that for another seven or eight hundred more.
Another reason is to enlighten the world with your sparkling insight into the subtlties of symbolism and layers of meaning in the book. With regard to Gravity's Rainbow, you can save that stuff for your weekly book club. The symbolism and layered meaning in GR are about as subtle as a rocket attack on a movie theater. This is why GR is often compared to Finnegan's Wake. If you've ever watched Joseph Campbell explain that novel, you realize that the search for deep intellectual insight is a conceit. These novels require your best effort just to understand the LITERAL stuff.
Another reason to review a book is to provide your own subjective opinion about the overall quality of the experience. I've found that many such GR reviews fall into one of two camps: "I read 'X' pages and couldn't/didn't finish it" or "Thomas Pynchon is God". The problem with reviews like this is that they say more about the meta-experience (sorry, but that is the appropriate word) of reading the book than they do about the book itself. Those of us who finish it are subject to a kind of "Iron John" machismo which falls apart if we are forced to admit that the whole thing might be a colossal put-on. On the other hand, those who give up can't help feeling that perhaps they are missing the big IT and don't like feeling that they might be unable to appreciate genius.
So is it the Emperor's New Clothes, or Pearls Before Swine?
It doesn't matter. The question is probably meaningless anyway.
If you like incredibly obscure cultural references, if you like dense imagery, if you like chilling portrayals of paranoia and the dire consequences to humans when people with power succumb to it and if you like conspiracy theory, you'll dig this book.
I do, so I did.
On the other hand, if you're hung up on little things like narrative structure, characterization, plot, etc., I'd stay away.
94 人中、89人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
It almost makes lives seem worth living
1999/11/19
形式:ペーパーバック
Gravity's Rainbow probably gets a more outrageously diverse set of responses than any other book by a living author; it's supposed to be either a brilliant, compendious, funny, tragic novel about war, modernity and history or a stupid, slack, paranoid rant by a burnt-out (probable) druggy. The first time I read it it took me nine months, and when I'd finished I didn't know what had happened, but I knew I'd had the most amazing ride of my life along the way. The second time took me four weeks (it's a long book) and this time, it revealed itself as a masterpiece. (Well, Nabokov always said that you only read a book properly the second time around.) Ignore the begrudgers; never mind who Pynchon is supposed to be "better" or "worse" than; don't worry about not understanding all of it first go. Pynchon is one of the most intelligent and well-read novelists of all time, more so than you or I, but he has a rock'n'roll heart; nobody else can leap from zoot-suited craziness to rocket chemistry to diving down a toilet in search of a lost harmonica (twenty years before Trainspotting, kids) to minutely researched accounts of genocide and still keep littering his wildly elastic prose with daft little songs. There were probably people in ancient Greece who thought that Homer was an untalented driveller, too. Ignore them. Dive in. Enjoy. The last page is a killer.
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