《万有引力之虹》是托马斯·品钦所著的后现代主义史诗小说，初版于1973年2月28日。
故事情节主要设定在二战后的欧洲，故事以德国军队设计、生产和调度V2火箭的过程，以及几个角色揭开装在“00000”号火箭上那神秘的“黑色装置”（德语：Schwarzgerät）背后隐藏的秘密为主线。

The novel's title is a reference to the parabolic trajectory of a V-2 rocket: the "rainbow-shaped" path created by the missile as it moves under the influence of gravity, subsequent to the engine's deactivation; it is also thought to refer to the "shape" of the plot, which many critics such as Weisenburger have found to be cyclical or circular, like the true shape of a rainbow. This follows in the literary tradition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man.

Gravity's Rainbow is composed of four parts, each of these composed of a number of episodes whose divisions are marked by a graphical depiction of a series of squares. It has been suggested that these represent sprocket holes as in a reel of film, although they may also bear some relation to the engineer's graph paper on which the first draft of the novel was written. One of the book's editors has been quoted as saying that the squares relate to censored correspondence sent between soldiers and their loved ones during the war. When family and friends received edited letters, the removed sections would be cut out in squared or rectangular sections. The squares that start each of the four parts would therefore be indicative of what is not written, or what is removed by an external editor or censor.The square frames that divide each chapter were the work of the publisher's production department, and were not suggested by Pynchon. The number of episodes in each part carries with it a numerological significance which is in keeping with the use of numerology and Tarot symbolism throughout the novel.

品钦的神作，我最喜欢的文学作品之一.本书没有自始至终专一的故事情节，没有完全固定的人物角色，更没有什么可以概括出来的特点和中心，但有的，是足以让我们惊叹的细节之全面与刻画之彻底.书中几乎每页每隔几行都会出现经典的悲剧，经典的喜剧，经典的人物以及经典的丑陋，之所以称之为经典，是因为这些都是日常之中的缩影，更是日常之中夸张后表现出来的，缺憾却完美的艺术效果。
后现代或许就是这种诡异的风格，我们抓不到中心，抓不到所谓的纲要。但确实有一个十分重要的暗喻(小说里尽是暗喻)：所谓的虹，无非是像v2导弹一样，沿着一条完美的弧线，灿烂一瞬，而坠入深谷，永远沉寂。人生不也如此么？不止，应该是万物如此。
当然，作者并不是想用晦涩的文笔，乱七八糟的情节以及令人生畏的专业知识来做所谓的玄学，而是要借此把生活，社会，战争，科技等等这些串联在一起，宣扬一个关于生命的主题。即便是用荒诞透顶，歇斯底里的写法，也要讲它讲述出来，这才是人类，这才是生命。不过话说回来，人类的出现就是荒诞的，就是歇斯底里的。莫说我们这种生物是巧合才得以出现，就冲奇异的灵长类能够下地制造工具这点，就是十分荒诞的了。灵长类不是最健壮，不是最聪明，不是最快，不是最灵巧，但有一点：最幸运。这确实荒诞。
倘若当年荒诞出的不是灵长类，而是蝙蝠，或许现在我们都是bat man了。玩笑。

1Ive1 发表于 2012-8-9 14:13

                               
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好神奇的样子~~

1Ive1 发表于 2012-8-9 14:14

                               
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sf么~~

Neptuilock 发表于 2012-8-9 14:16

                               
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- -看书 不要抢沙发

1Ive1 发表于 2012-8-9 14:16

                               
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科幻小说...
science fiction...

Neptuilock 发表于 2012-8-9 15:16

                               
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不是科幻。后现代，postmodern