Gravity's Rainbow remains one of the most enigmatic and ambitious novels of the 20th century - a kaleidoscope of paranoia, power, sex, science, and entropy set against the crumbling ruins of World War II. In Unmasking Gravity's Rainbow, Charles Hohmann unravels the novel's dense web of references and motifs, and guides the reader through the novel's key symbols - from the mysterious V-2 rocket to the silent systems of control - and situates it within the broader landscape of postmodern literature and Cold War anxiety. Whether you're a first-time reader or a seasoned Pynchon scholar, this book offers a clear-eyed entry point into one of the most formidable literary achievements of our time.

The novel sheds new light on numerous old issues of genre and narrative style,

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Charles Hohmann was born in Alexandria (Egypt) on 16 July 1947. He attended primary and secondary school in Alexandria, Abingdon (Great Britain) and Switzerland. He studied English and French literature at the University of Fribourg (i. Ue). In 1982, he did research for the English Department of Zürich University and wrote his doctoral thesis on the postmodern American author Thomas Pynchon. He was also a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago and the Oxford Royale Academy. He subsequently qualified in Switzerland as a Neurofeedback practitioner. In 2013 he founded his language school, the Tutorat Ägeri in Switzerland and retired in 2023. He lives in Thailand today, reading, writing and travelling, immersed in the mysteries of the Orient.