Thomas Pynchon is, along with Salinger, “the great American recluse,” one of the greatest writers of world literature of the 20th and now 21st centuries, after his first publications he was unanimously recognized as a classic on the level of Nabokov, Joyce and Borges. His "Gravity's Rainbow" is the main post-war novel of world literature, absorbing the second half of the 20th century in the same way as Joyce's "Ulysses" absorbed the first. This is a grandiose postmodern epic and caustic satire, this is a tragedy multiplied by farce and a radical anti-war statement, this is a countercultural Bible and an explosive mixture of irony and conspiracy theories; it is, finally, a unique reading experience and a surreal travelogue from the underworld of our collective past. Without Gravity's Rainbow, there would have been no Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, nor all of cyberpunk taken together, and the very landscape of modern literature would have been completely different. For almost half a century, new meanings are being discovered every day in this book, but the only correct reading remains, fortunately, unattainable. Having received the main American literary award - the National Book Award of the United States, nominated for a dozen other prestigious awards and with its radicalism causing an avalanche of resignations of respected juries, Gravity's Rainbow remains outside the evaluation scale and outside of time. The translation is published in a new edition. The book contains obscene language!