#william gaddis

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From William Gaddis’s Carpenter's Gothic

[davidhudson]

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

1968 photo by Santi Visalli.

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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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William Gaddis (far right) in Ganja & Hess

[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.

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Best Books of 1975?

Previously: Best Books of 1972? Best Books of 1973? Best Books of 1974? Not-really-the-rules recap: I will focus primarily on novels here, or books of a novelistic/artistic scope. I will include books published in English in 1975; I will not include books published in their original language in 1975 that did not appear in English translation until years later. So for example, Thomas Bernhard’s…

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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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From William Gaddis’s The Recognitions

[davidhudson]

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

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Free trade and Christianity, it's the German East Africa Company, it's French Equatorial Africa, it's the Belgians cutting down the Congo population from twenty million to ten in barely twenty years, by nineteen fourteen there's nothing left to plunder in Africa so they go to war with each other in Europe instead...

William Gaddis, Carpenter's Gothic

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