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The Recognitions (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) (Paperback)

The Recognitions (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) By William Gaddis, William H. Gass (Introduction by) Cover Image
By William Gaddis, William H. Gass (Introduction by)
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The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the ur-text of postwar fiction and the first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V, managed to anticipate the spirit of both The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake. Gaddis anticipates by almost half a century the crisis of reality that we currently face, where the real and the virtual are combining in alarming ways, and the sources of legitimacy and power are often obscure to us.

About the Author


William Gaddis (1922-1998) stands among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The winner of two National Book Awards, as well as a MacArthur Genius Award, a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, he wrote five novels during his lifetime. He is loved and admired for his stylistic innovations, his unforgettable characters, his pervasive humor, and the breadth of his intellect and vision.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781564786913
ISBN-10: 1564786919
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication Date: February 7th, 2012
Pages: 956
Language: English
Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)