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Against the Day
''Against the Day'' is a 2006 historical novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all," according to the book jacket blurb written by Pynchon. Like its predecessors, ''Against the Day'' is an example of historiographic metafiction or metahistorical romance, and at 1,085 pages it is the longest of Pynchon's novels to date.
==Title==
Besides appearing within the book itself, the novel's title apparently refers to a verse in the Bible (2 Peter 3:7) reading "the heavens and the earth ... () reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."〔LeClair, Tom, (Lead Zeppelin: Encounters with the unseen in Pynchon's new novel ), a review of ''Against the Day'' in the Dec/Jan 2007 ''Book Forum''. The first reviewer who identified the title with the Biblical quote was Alexander Theroux in the November 24 ''The Wall Street Journal'' review (Fantastic Journey ) (full text for subscribers only).〕
William Faulkner, whose diction frequently echoes the King James Bible, liked the phrase, and many reviewers have traced it to a speech of Faulkner's against racism. Perhaps as relevant is a passage in ''Absalom, Absalom!'' in which Sutpen, a Faustus character of the sort that Pynchon deploys everywhere, seeks "a wife who not only would consolidate the hiding but could would and did breed him two children to fend and shield both in themselves and in their progeny the brittle bones and tired flesh of an old man against the day when the Creditor would run him to earth for the last time and he couldn't get away." The Creditor there is Mephistopheles, to whom Faustus/Sutpen would owe his soul. (The passage in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' about the "black indomitable oven" with which the witch-like Blicero, another Faustus character, is left once the Hansel-and-Gretel-like children have departed, alludes to another passage in ''Absalom, Absalom!''.)
Nonliterary sources for the title may also exist: ''Contre-jour'' (literally "against (the) day"), a term in photography referring to backlighting. There are also two uses of the phrase "against the day" in Pynchon's ''Mason & Dixon'',〔Chapter 12 (p. 125) and 70 (p. 683).
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