Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49"

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Postmodern literature is one of the most confounding genres in existence today, a reflection of the confusion of the world in which it exists. Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49" deals with this difficult issue, using entropy as its organizational structure. The author discusses the novel and its themes.

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?Man now lives in a circle without a center, or in a maze without a way out.? (Edward Said, "Abecedarium Culturae: Structuralism, Absence, Writing") Edward Said's words incorporate a very recognizable trait in contemporary society: our journey away from the simpler, concrete, more understandable world of the past into the more complex, abstract, and confusing world of tomorrow. As man grows "smarter" or becomes more aware of his surroundings, we gather more and more information about our universe in an attempt to find ?truth.?

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