Reading Gravity's Rainbow

An in-depth study of perhaps the most important American novel of the twentieth century. Reading will include Pynchon's early novel The Crying of Lot 49 , stories by Borges, Kafka, and Nabokov, and a range of historical, texts and films alluded to in Gravity’s Rainbow , from the sermons of Jonathan Edwards to the poetry of Rilke to The Wizard of Oz . Enrollment limited to 20 seniors.