托马斯·品钦(1937—)可算是当代美国文坛上的一大奇人,其奇有三.“奇”一是他的遁世隐居,激流勇退.发表了第一部成名之作《V》(1963)之后,便不再见诸新闻报刊,据说时至今日,读者乃至批评家也只见过他一幅照片,就连他身居何处也是众“猜”纷纭;“奇”二在于他居然能以四小说(不包括97年新作《梅森和迪克森》)定乾坤,关于他的评论文章每年以百篇计,前几年,他竟然还获得了诺贝尔文学奖的提名;“奇”三是尽管他的小说一向以构思奇谲,内容庞杂,语言晦涩而著称,常被批评家比做《尤利西斯》式的百科全书般迷宫作品,却仍使许多读 Thomas Pynchon (1937-) can be regarded as one of the most striking figures in the contemporary American literary world, with Oddness being his first reclusive “V” (1963) It is said that readers and even critics have seen only one photograph of him since then. Even his whereabouts are “guess” contentions; “odd” lies in his ability to actually In four novels (not including the new work of 1997, “Mason and Dixon”) set the universe, on his commentary every article in hundreds of articles, a few years ago, he actually won the Nobel Prize for Literature nominations; “odd” three Even though his novels have always been famous for their imaginative content, complicated content and obscure language, they are often criticized by many critics as “Ulysses” encyclopedic maze but still make many readings