Da impossibilidade da lucidez: a dissolução do Século XX em O arco-íris da gravidade , de Thomas Pynchon

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the relation between the fictionalization of Modern History and the development of an ethics of daily life in Thomas Pynchon s Gravity s rainbow. For the novel s interpretation, the first chapter develops a theoretical and methodological approach capable of dealing with its formal complexity (one which obscures thematic synthesis) in order to establish, thereby, the conditions of possibility of detection of recurring thematic elements, which in their turn through a dispersive or non-concentric network of connections puts into perspective some fractured totalization of the modern and contemporary world-systems. The second chapter presents the novel s fictionalization of the Twentieth Century in its mundane and metaphysical configurations, whereas the last chapter analyzes the conditions they settle for the formation, within the fictional reality , of ethically positive routines and modes of life