{"product_id":"vineland-reread-1","title":"Vineland Reread","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon’s return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic \u003cem\u003eGravity’s Rainbow\u003c\/em\u003e, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with his early besotted encounters with \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e, Coviello reads Pynchon’s offbeat novel of sixties insurgents stranded in the Reaganite summer of 1984 as a delirious stoner comedy that is simultaneously a work of heartsick fury and political grief: a portrait of the hard afterlives of failed revolution in a period of stifling reaction. Offering a roving meditation on the uses of criticism and the practice of friendship, the fashioning of publics and counterpublics, the sentence and the police, Coviello argues that \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e is among the most abundant and far-sighted of late-century American excursions into novelistic possibility. Departing from visions of Pynchon as the arch-postmodernist, erudite and obscure, he discloses an author far more companionable and humane. In Pynchon’s harmonizing of joyousness and outrage, comedy and sorrow, Coviello finds a model for thinking through our catastrophic present.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Livre numérique Kobo","offer_id":46438331121874,"sku":"09032907-c3a5-33dd-a132-f3cbcd6ebbbe","price":20.79,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_1fc032e1-f356-4799-af78-39525f71fa1c.jpg?v=1762618491","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/vineland-reread-1","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}