Inherent Vice -

Thomas Pynchon

Penguin Books

2009

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-10: 1594202249

It’s been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It’s the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that 'love' is another of those words going around at the moment, like 'trip' or 'groovy,' except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren’t there.

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3 (Bom)

O lance é que esse livro é uma mistura de irmãos Coen com Raymond Chandler, é como se o Jeffrey Lebowski se tornasse protagonista do The Long Goodbye no lugar do Marlowe, não há como negar que o livro é divertidíssimo e o Pynchon tem um olhar privilegiado para a cultura pop (tem explanações alí que apenas um cinéfilo voraz conseguiria fazer). É meu primeiro Pynchon e não me impressionou, mas de fato é um bom livro.