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litsnaps · 2 months ago
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quotessentially · 5 months ago
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From William Gaddis’s Carpenter's Gothic
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quotespile · 9 months ago
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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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sivavakkiyar · 5 months ago
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William Gaddis (far right) in Ganja & Hess
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weaselandfriends · 5 months ago
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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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davidhudson · 1 year ago
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William Gaddis, December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998.
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sentimentalbot · 2 years ago
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William Gaddis, from The Recognitions, originally published in 1955
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biblioklept · 9 months ago
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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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meta-squash · 1 year ago
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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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st-guliks-fnord · 1 year ago
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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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litsnaps · 10 months ago
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quotessentially · 1 year ago
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From William Gaddis’s The Recognitions
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quotespile · 2 years ago
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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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sivavakkiyar · 1 year ago
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jacobwren · 2 years ago
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis
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bookcoversonly · 1 year ago
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Title: J R | Author: William Gaddis | Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (1975)
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