V. Novel

Thomas Pynchon - alongside Salinger, the "great American recluse", one of the greatest writers of world literature of the 20th, and now the 21st century, unanimously recognized as a classic at the level of Nabokov, Joyce, and Borges since his very first publications. In his debut novel "V.", awarded the Faulkner Prize and included in the shortlist of the National Book Award in the USA, readers were introduced for the first time to Pynchon's signature obsession with global conspiracies and the hidden springs of history - and were forever enchanted. Here, the paths of Benny Profane, the "schlemiel and animated yo-yo", intersect with a group of New York bohemians known as the Whole Sick Crew and Herbert Stencil, traversing numerous countries and decades in pursuit of the elusive V. - whether a woman or an idea... The translation is published in a new edition.