![]() ![]() While at school, he attended lectures taught by Vladimir Nabokov, whose own playful prose style influenced him. Pynchon studied engineering physics at Cornell University, briefly interrupting his tenure there to serve in the U.S. Stencil wanders and swerves the open road. Profane’s journey largely happens on and under city streets. It focuses on the lives of Benny Profane, a war vet who wanders New York City searching for meaning, and Herbert Stencil, an intellectual on his own quest-he seeks a mysterious woman, V., described in his father’s diary. tells a story beyond the capabilities of traditional narrative. Pynchon came out of the batter’s box with a home run on his first swing. It stands as a testament to his talent that this first foray into the world of long-form prose arrived neither apocryphal nor underdeveloped. Thomas Pynchon has been able to fall asleep for the last 50 years knowing his first novel was V. ![]()
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