『固有の瑕疵』
「固有の瑕疵」:ある貨物・財産が有する、外力がかからなくても自然に変質・損傷をもたらす性質(『リーダーズプラス』)
2009年8月出版予定のピンチョンの新作のタイトルが発表されました。Inherent Vice. 『固有の瑕疵』。かなり詳しいあらすじは以下の通り。ペンギン社のカタログ(オンライン版)に掲載されている情報です(きっとこれらの情報は、あっという間に誰かがウィキペディアに追記することでしょう)。
It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up
by some dentists.
In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there . . . or . . . if you were there, then you . . . or, wait, is it . . .
http://booksellers.dk.com/static/pdf/penguinpress-summer09.pdf
New Pynchon Details--Inherent Vice
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