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The Crying of Lot 49

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The Crying of Lot 49	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Crying of Lot 49 is a 1966 novel (or perhaps novella) by Thomas Pynchon. It is about a woman named Oedipa Maas who unravels the rivalry between two mail distribution companies, Trystero and Thurn und Taxis. Possibly. Or maybe it's an elaborate prank. Or maybe she is actually hallucinating it all.Though it is significantly shorter than the rest of Pynchon's novels (especially Against the Day and Mason & Dixon), it has become one of Pynchon's most popular books, after Gravity's Rainbow and possibly V. Time magazine included it in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".Pynchon's style evolve further in Lot 49 after V., which is straightforward and basic in comparison. The novel can also be seen as a bridge between Modernism and Postmodernism, which will be fully engaged in Gravity's Rainbow.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with "Lot No. 249", a Mummy horror story by Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The Crying of Lot 49 / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: The symbol of Trystero, the muted post horn.
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The Crying of Lot 49 / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: A lot of this is more on the part of the characters than Pynchon himself (who usually knows his stuff) and the basic errors in facts probably indicate their loose grasp on history. Mike Fallopian for instance notes that the Russian Tsar who abolished serfdom (and according to him, attacked Peter Pinguid to prevent France and England intervening on behalf of the South) is Nicholas II. The Tsar is actually Alexander II, while Nicholas II was the last tsar in Russian history, executed alongside his family by the Bolshevik regime at Yekaterinaburg.
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The Crying of Lot 49 / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: 49.
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The Crying of Lot 49 / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Thurn und Taxis really existed. Trystero (to the best of our knowledge) did not.
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