The Crying of Lot 49 is An Allegory of… Something
Author Thomas Pynchon finds a way to create a book with absolute meaning and no meaning at all.
6 min readAug 16, 2022
Two months into my Thomas Pynchon iceberg has finally led me to The Crying of Lot 49. Arguably his most famous book, Pynchon was three years fresh off his debut novel V. when it was published. With little known about his…
