Título: Thomas Pynchon
Seção: The Crying of Lot 49
Background: Thomas Pynchon was born in 1937 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, one of three children of Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Sr. (1907-1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909-1996). His earliest American ancestor, William Pynchon, emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, then became the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1636, and thereafter a long line of Pynchon descendants found wealth and repute on American soil. Aspects of Pynchon's ancestry and family background have partially inspired his fiction writing, particularly in the Slothrop family histories related in the short story "The Secret Integration" (1964) and Gravity's Rainbow (1973).

Conteúdo: In an April 1964 letter to his agent, Candida Donadio, Pynchon wrote that he was facing a creative crisis, with four novels in progress, announcing: "If they come out on paper anything like they are inside my head then it will be the literary event of the millennium."  In the mid-1960s, Pynchon lived at 217 33rd St. in Manhattan Beach, California, in a small downstairs apartment.  In December 1965, Pynchon politely turned down an invitation from Stanley Edgar Hyman to teach literature at Bennington College, writing that he had resolved, two or three years earlier, to write three novels at once. Pynchon described the decision as "a moment of temporary insanity", but noted that he was "too stubborn to let any of them go, let alone all of them."  Pynchon's second novel, The Crying of Lot 49, was published a few months later in 1966. Whether it was one of the three or four novels Pynchon had in progress is not known, but in a 1965 letter to Donadio, Pynchon had written that he was in the middle of writing a "potboiler". When the book grew to 155 pages, he called it, "a short story, but with gland trouble", and hoped that Donadio could "unload it on some poor sucker."  The Crying of Lot 49 won the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Foundation Award shortly after publication. Although more concise and linear in its structure than Pynchon's other novels, its labyrinthine plot features an ancient, underground mail service known as "The Tristero" or "Trystero", a parody of a Jacobean revenge

user: What is The Crying of Lot 49?

assistant: The Crying of Lot 49, was published a few months later in 1966.

user: What gave him the inspiration to publish this?

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user: What did he write in this?

assistant: its labyrinthine plot features an ancient, underground mail service known as "The Tristero" or "Trystero",

user: How was this received by the public?

assistant: The Crying of Lot 49 won the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Foundation Award shortly after publication.

user: Did they ever see popularity around the world?

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user: Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?

assistant: Pynchon politely turned down an invitation from Stanley Edgar Hyman to teach literature at Bennington College,

user: Why did he turn down the invitation?

assistant: writing that he had resolved, two or three years earlier, to write three novels at once.

user: What other novels did he write?

assistant: If they come out on paper anything like they are inside my head then it will be the literary event of the millennium."