The End(s) of the Dystopian City: From Metropolis to Gravity’s Rainbow… and back
The End(s) of the Dystopian City: From Metropolis to Gravity’s Rainbow… and back

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present study is to analyze the dystopian elements in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and to prove that his dystopian vision imbues not only references close to famous dystopias of Twentieth Century such as Nineteenth-Eighty Four, but also to films (the Expressionist movement), and especially Metropolis by Fritz Lang. Although there is a rich amount of critical work on Gravity’s Rainbow, the intertextual relationships between these texts and films have rarely been explored in order to understand and clarify Pynchon’s postmodern dystopian vision. The influence of film on literature is also a less discussed topic, especially in the case of classic, canonic writers such as Orwell and Pynchon.

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