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Against the Day
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In this article, Against the Day moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; from London to Venice, to Siberia, to Mexico during the revolution; silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.Abstract:
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; from London to Venice, to Siberia, to Mexico during the revolution; silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. It is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.read more
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Consciousness without Borders: Narratology in Against the Day and the Works of Thomas Pynchon
TL;DR: For instance, this article pointed out that the narration in Pynchon's Against the Day (ATD) is structured around a series of short-term and long-range repetitions through which characters iterate specific phrases the narrator has used and vice versa, and most characters, events, and speeches are revoiced and doubled.
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