Tore Rye Andersen has just published a new monograph titled "Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene".
Diving into the celebrated American novelist Pynchon’s major novels, such as Gravity’s Rainbow and Against the Day, Andersen argues that the books can be read against the backdrop of the emerging Anthropocene of the 20th century.
While Pynchon’s work has often been connected to histories of media and technology, Andersen…