So, this is a novel that's full of people crying,

所以这是一部充满民众嚎哭的小说
which is an odd thing to think about when you think back to Pynchon's

这细想起来是个奇怪的事情当你回想到品钦
reputation as a metafictional novelist,

作为一名元小说家享誉盛名时
as someone preeminently preoccupied with the formal aspects of fiction.

他是一个在小说的正式方面上堪称经典
What you find when you actually open up Pynchon's novels is

事实上当你打开品钦的小说你会发现
an incredibly rich world of human detritus, of history.

一个丰富得令人置信的人类社会琐事和历史
In Gravity's Rainbow he did enormous amounts of research in

在《地心引力的彩虹》里他从二战伦敦报纸上
newspapers from the Second World War in London

做了大量调查
where some of the novel is set, so that you can go to newspapers and

很多小说都在那发行因此你可以从报纸上
find the ads that he talks about in the novels.

找到那些讨论小说的广告
So, he combines this very attentive set of details,

他把这些很引人注意的细节联系起来
which are not always, and often are not at all,

这些细节并非常有也常常一点都没有