Винляндия

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. Pynchon's characters are traditionally obsessed with themes of universal conspiracy and social paranoia, searching for the secret springs of history. Vineland came out with a huge break, almost 20 years after Pynchon's previous novel, the epochal Rainbow of Gravity (almost 20 years later, the second book of the California Dilogy, Inner Vice, was published), and its unexpected clarity and directness of statement surprised many — but expectations were fulfilled a hundredfold. Here, the "flower children", who lived from the freedom-loving 1960s to the gloomy 1980s, continue to resist the state machine of oppression, the wooded California mountains hide the spiritual haven of female ninjas, and Zoyd Kolles, the former keyboardist of the surf band Corvera, and his daughter Prairie are obsessed with the search for the legendary Frenesi Wrats; Zoyd's wife, Prairie's mother, she disappeared many years ago, and obviously not without the involvement of Birk Vond, a federal agent with special powers.…In the fall of 2025, Paul Thomas Anderson, one of the main visionaries of modern cinema, the director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, Oil and The Master, who has already brought Pynchon's novel Inner Vice to the big screen, is releasing the film Battle after Battle (starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn), a free adaptation of "Vineland". The translation is published in a new edition.