TY - JOUR AU - Di Vilio, Antonio PY - 2020/07/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - "Inherent Vice": Thomas Pynchon beyond the Postmodern Fiction and Anti-Detective Novel JF - Bibliotekarz Podlaski JA - bp VL - 47 IS - 2 SE - Literature, language, history – contexts DO - 10.36770/bp.483 UR - https://bibliotekarzpodlaski.pl/index.php/bp/article/view/483 SP - 283-294 AB - <p>This article analyzes the development of noir genre in <em>Inherent Vice</em> written by Thomas Pynchon in 2009. In fact, this novel seems to be a time of reflection about all shifts and changes of detective fiction, starting from the Californian <em>hard-boiled</em> school and the postmodern <em>anti-detective fiction</em> to the contemporary noir. In <em>Inherent Vice</em> Pynchon shows his awareness and considerations about the genre tradition – to which some of his novels such as <em>The Crying of Lot 49</em> belong– playing out a thought-provoking parodic representation of the detective story and its doom. This paper aims to decrypt the meaning of the references that <em>Inherent Vice</em> contains about noir genre and to detect what is the position of the author in writing this novel.&nbsp;</p> ER -