What is assumed in the paper is that traditional strategics of reading do not enable a satisfying approach to Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. The author proffers an interpretation of the text (hat relies on Ihab Hassan's catena of postmodernism which comprises the following elements: 1. identermination. 2. fragmentation, 3. decanonization, 4. selflessness, 5, the unpresentable, 6. irony, 7. hybridization, 8. carncvalization, 9, performance and 10. eonstiuetionisin/immanence. Appending the concept of post-history to the list, the author examines the implications it has for the status and practice of Pynchon’s novel as a literary text.
