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Arich-Gerz, Bruno
Comparative literature studies (Urbana), 01/2004, Letnik: 41, Številka: 2Journal Article
The thematic center of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow is a device, which figures as that technological means which preserves the power for a mysterious in-group of illuminati over the out-group of so-called preterites. The falling object might likewise be a celestial body, a larger and usually more destructive one than a mere meteor--a bolide, in other words, like the one described in the 1938 tale Kometa (The Comet) by the Polish artist-writer Bruno Schulz. The rocket and the comet have in common that Pynchon and Schulz ascribe a special significance to their respective flight curves and, more specifically, to the turning point of this parabola.
