^Tanner, T. Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon. London and New York: Methuen. 1982: 74. ISBN 0-416-31670-0. There are over 400 characters ... there are many discernible ... plots ... these plots touch and intersect, or diverge and separate.
^Guido Almansi (1994) L'estetica dell'osceno p.226 "piu' importante romanzo americano del secondo dopoguerra, Gravity's Rainbow di Thomas Pynchon (romanzo mai pubblicato in Italia, con grande vergogna dell'editoria nazionale)." English translation "most important american novel of the second post-war, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (a novel never published in Italy, why great shame of the national publishing industry)". Almansi's comment is from 1994. Gravity's Rainbow will eventually be translated and published in Italy in 1999.