William Gaddis
William Thomas Gaddis Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. ... The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was ...
William Gaddis The Art of Fiction No. 101 - The Paris Review
William Gaddis was born in 1922 in New York, where he lives now. In the mid-fifties he produced The Recognitions, an entropic, black humor, postmodern novel.
William Gaddis (Author of The Recognitions) - Goodreads
William Gaddis's Books · The Recognitions by William Gaddis The Recognitions. 4.20 5,890 ratings 762 reviews · J R by William Gaddis J R. 4.32 3,513 ratings 463 ...
Gaddis Annotations: William Gaddis - Index
The Gaddis Annotations Notes on the works of the great 20th-century novelist. William Gaddis "I feel like part of the vanishing breed that thinks a writer ...
William Gaddis - University at Albany
In this, his forth novel, Gaddis takes on the legal system, in a funny and realistic tale of lives caught up in the toils of the law. Gaddis juxtaposes the ...
William Gaddis | Modernist, Postmodernist, Satirist - Britannica
William Gaddis was an American novelist of complex, satiric works who is considered one of the best of the post-World War II Modernist ...
William Gaddis - WashU Libraries - Washington University
The William Gaddis Collection consists of the author's manuscript material and correspondence within the literary community.
William Gaddis - MacArthur Foundation
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The Most Curious Career: William Gaddis in Germany
The Most Curious Career: William Gaddis in Germany ... A personal recitation of Paul Ingendaay's career as a "lifelong" associate editor with the ...
Any idea how many years it took William Gaddis to write each of his ...
He had written The Recognitions over the span of 8 years but he played with the core idea for a bit longer. He also send himself an letter with ...
On Joseph Tabbi's biography of William Gaddis - The Kenyon Review
Joseph Tabbi's accomplishment in Nobody Grew but the Business is his winnowing of laborious details. At just over 200 pages, it is shorter than each of Gaddis's ...
Because God Did Not Relax, by Christopher Beha
William Gaddis's first two novels, which NYRB Classics is reissuing this fall, present a slightly different case. The critical neglect that The Recognitions ...
William Gaddis, Life & Work - Gaddis Annotations
In a virtuoso piece of structural parallelism, it turns out that his Civil War play revolves around the idea that a soldier who sends out substitutes during the ...
William Gaddis - New York Review Books
William Gaddis (1922–1998) was born in Manhattan, and reared on Long Island. He attended Harvard during World War II, but left without a degree in 1945.
“Honored by the Error”: The Literary Friendship of Gaddis and Gass
Anyone more than a little familiar with William Gaddis or William Gass likely knows of their long friendship. They first met at the National ...
Scope and Contents. The William Gaddis Papers consist largely of his own manuscript material: manuscripts and source material toward his books, drafts of ...
William GADDIS Rare Books and First Editions at Bauman Rare Books
Browse Rare Books and First Editions by William GADDIS available at Bauman Rare Books.
William Gaddis's Disorderly Inferno - The Paris Review
J R was even newer. It employs none of the fictive habits, the prompts and crutches and connective tissue of narrative. Time slips around like ...
William Gaddis - Penguin Random House
William Gaddis (1922-1998) was a master of the American novel who was frequently compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Pynchon. Two of his novels, J R and...
J R is a novel by William Gaddis published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975. It tells the story of a schoolboy secretly amassing a fortune in penny stocks.