The creator of characters like Oedipa Maas and Tyrone Slothrop, for 10 points, name this postmodern American author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.
This author created the character Tchitcherine, who is involved in a blood feud with his half-brother Enzian, in one of his novels. Another of this author's works contains John Nefastis, who invents a machine that can be used to attempt to "connect" with Maxwell's Demon. One of this author's protagonists sees mailboxes with "W.A.S.T.E." written on them around the Bay Area and believes she finds evidence of Trystero's conspiracy. The creator of characters like Oedipa Maas and Tyrone Slothrop, for 10 points, name this postmodern American author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.
This author created the character Tchitcherine, who is involved in a blood feud with his half-brother Enzian, in one of his novels.
Thomas Pynchon