Радуга тяготения

Tomas Pinchon - nari͡adu s Sėlindzherom, "velikiĭ amerikanskiĭ zatvornik", odin iz krupneĭshikh pisateleĭ mirovoĭ literatury XX, a teperʹ i XXI veka, posle pervykh zhe publikat͡siĭ edinodushno priznannyĭ klassikom urovni͡a Nabokova, Dzhoĭsa i Borkhesa. Ego "Raduga ti͡agotenii͡a" - ėto glavnyĭ poslevoennyĭ roman mirovoĭ literatury, vobravshiĭ v sebi͡a vtorui͡u polovinu XX veka tak zhe, kak dzhoĭsovskiĭ "Uliss" vobral pervui͡u. Ėto grandioznyĭ postmodernistskiĭ ėpos i edkai͡a satira, pomnozhennai͡a na fars tragedii͡a i radikalʹneĭshee antivoennoe vyskazyvanie, kontrkulʹturnai͡a biblii͡a i vzryvchatai͡a smesʹ ironii s konspirologieĭ; nakonet͡s, ėto unikalʹnyĭ chitatelʹskiĭ opyt i si͡urrealisticheskiĭ travelog cherez preispodni͡ui͡u nashego kollektivnogo proshlogo. Bez "Radugi ti͡agotenii͡a" ne bylo by ni "Mai͡atnika Fuko" Umberto Ėko, ni vsego kiberpanka, vmeste vzi͡atogo, da i sam peĭzazh sovremennoĭ literatury byl by sovershenno inym. Vot uzhe pochti polveka v ėtoĭ knige chto ni denʹ otkryvai͡ut novye smysly, no edinstvennoe pravilʹnoe prochtenie tak i ostaetsi͡a, k schastʹi͡u, nedostizhimym. Poluchivshai͡a glavnui͡u amerikanskui͡u literaturnui͡u nagradu - Nat͡sionalʹnui͡u knizhnui͡u premii͡u SShA, nominirovannai͡a na desi͡atok drugikh prestizhnykh premiĭ i svoim radikalizmom vyzvavshai͡a lavinu otstavok pochtennykh zhi͡uri, "Raduga ti͡agotenii͡a" ostaetsi͡a vne ot͡senochnoĭ shkaly i vne vremeni.

Thomas Pynchon is, along with Salinger, the "great American recluse", one of the greatest writers of world literature of the XX and now the XXI century, after the very first publications, unanimously recognized as a classic of the level of Nabokov, Joyce and Borges. His "Rainbow of Gravity" is the main post—war novel of world literature, which absorbed the second half of the 20th century, just as Joyce's "Ulysses" absorbed the first. It is a grandiose postmodern epic and caustic satire, a tragedy multiplied by farce and a radical anti-war statement, a countercultural bible and an explosive mixture of irony and conspiracy theory; finally, it is a unique reader's experience and a surreal travelogue through the underworld of our collective past. Without the Rainbow of Gravity, there would be neither Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, nor the whole cyberpunk taken together, and the landscape of modern literature itself would be completely different. For almost half a century now, new meanings have been discovered in this book every day, but the only correct reading remains, fortunately, unattainable. Having received the main American literary award — the National Book Award of the USA, nominated for a dozen other prestigious awards and, with its radicalism, caused an avalanche of resignations of venerable juries, "Gravity's Rainbow" remains outside the evaluation scale and timeless.