#william gaddis

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From William Gaddis’s Carpenter's Gothic

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We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.

William Gaddis, The Recognitions

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[weaselandfriends]

After two months, reading slowly (I was focused on editing WIW during this period), I finally finished William Gaddis' The Recognitions. My initial thoughts are that this is one of the best novels I've ever read; possibly in some nebulously-defined top 10. (I don't rate novels the way I do movies.)

I wish I read this before writing Cockatiel x Chameleon. So much of what it has to say about art and the function of art in the modern and postmodern world has bearing on similar themes in CxC. Van Der Gramme could have been one of the (innumerable) characters that dot The Recognition's pages.

If you enjoy 1,000 page dense postmodern epics, I can't recommend this enough.

[davidhudson]

William Gaddis, December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998.

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William Gaddis, from The Recognitions, originally published in 1955

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John Barth's brief description of Donald Barthelme's so-called postmodernist dinners

Photograph from “The Postmodernists Dinner,” 1983 by Jill Krementz (b. 1940) In John Barth’s 1989 New York Times eulogy for Donald Barthelme, Barth gives a brief description of two so-called postmodernist dinners, both of which I’ve written on this blog before. …though [Barthelme] tsked at the critical tendency to group certain writers against certain others ”as if we were football teams” –…

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I might have asked this already, but is there a community on here for people reading The Recognitions by William Gaddis like there's a community on here for people reading Les Miserables?

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Thinking about The Recognitions again

I have wayyyy too many books on my to-read list to read a 945 page book for the second time (in the same year) right now

But it’s just That Good it’s just SO GOOD

I am never going to get over it

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It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

William Gaddis, The Recognitions

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From William Gaddis’s The Recognitions

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Title: J R | Author: William Gaddis | Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (1975)

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I couldn't think of anything worth saying in literature that can't be said in 806 pages | John Barth on The Recognitions

Q: Do you find some such qualities in a neglected novel, William Gaddis’ The Recognitions? Barth: I know that book only by sight. 950 pages: longer than The Sot-Weed Factor. Somebody asked me to review the new reprint of it, but I said I couldn’t think of anything worth saying in literature that can’t be said in 806 pages. From a 1965 interview with John Barth (conducted by John J. Enck),…