«How had it ever happened here?», Thomas Pynchon’s protagonist Oedipa Maas asks towards the end of his second novel . This question is taken up in this book to explore Pynchon’s novels in the light of constructivist theory. It begins with a detailed reading of , which is carried into readings of Pynchon’s other novels ( and ). All are shown to critically deal with the social construction of reality as a central theme, and a development of this theme is traced throughout Pynchon’s novels.weiterlesen