Urban Sprawl and Existentialism in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
Issued Date: 21 Jul 2014
Abstract
The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon’s profound commentary on existentialism and on America’s increasingly generic, brutal, and isolating urban landscape. Pynchon weighs both topics as he depicts the existential angst of a commodified, market-driven life filled with marketing jingles, unplanned sprawl as far as the eye can see, soulless subdivisions, endless freeways, and the resulting breakdown of community where people feel disconnected and alone and their lives seem empty and meaningless.
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DOI: 10.1558/eph.v21i1.81
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