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J R (Paperback)
William Gaddis, Joy Williams
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R916
R766
Discovery Miles 7 660
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The Recognitions (Paperback)
William Gaddis, Tom; William H. McCarthy; Gass
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R880
R722
Discovery Miles 7 220
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Agape Agape (Paperback)
William Gaddis; Introduction by Sven Birkerts; Afterword by Joseph Tabbi
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R355
R288
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William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.
William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists. Less well known is Gaddis's body of excellent critical writings. Here is a wide range of his original essays, some published for the first time. From "'Stop Player. Joke No. 4,'" Gaddis's first national publication and the basis for his projected history of the player piano, to the title essay about missed opportunities in America during the past fifty years, to "Old Foes with New Faces," an examination of the relationship between the writer and the problem of religion—this diverse collection displays the power of an autonomous literary intelligence in an age increasingly dominated by political and religious conservatism.
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Agape Se Paga (Spanish, Paperback)
William Gaddis; Translated by Miguel Martinez-Lage; Contributions by Joseph Tabbi; Prologue by Rodrigo Fresan
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R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
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A dying man lies in bed and embarks on a mental monologue on the
mechanization of the arts, represented in the appearance of a
mechanical piano. His reflections become a piercing diatribe
against modern society and its deep-seated desires for fame and
fortune. This novel is a heartbreaking story that does not grant
any reprieve, and a superb diagnosis of the effects of technology,
not only in the arts, but at the very core of contemporary everyday
life. "Un hombre que yace en cama moribundo se embarca en un
monologo mental a partir de la mecanizacion de las artes,
representada en la aparicion de la pianola. Su reflexion termina
por ser una punzante diatriba contra la sociedad moderna, con sus
arraigados anhelos de fortuna y reconocimiento. Esta novela es un
relato desgarrador que no concede respiro alguno y que es un
magnifico diagnostico de los efectos de la tecnologia, no solo en
el arte, sino en lo mas hondo de la vida cotidiana contemporanea."
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand crusade that conveniently suits a mining combine bidding to take over an ore strike on the site of Ude's African mission. At the still center of the breakneck action--revealed in Gaddis's inimitable virtuoso dialoge—is Paul's wife, Liz, and over it all looms the shadowy figure of McCandless, a geologist from whom Paul and Liz rent their house. As Paul mishandles the situation, his wife takes the geologist to her bed and a fire and aborted assassination occur; Ude issues a call to arms as harrowing as any Jeremiad--and Armageddon comes rapidly closer. Displaying Gaddis's inimitable virtuoso dialogue, and his startling treatments of violence and sexuality, Carpenter's Gothic "shows again that Gaddis is among the first rank of contemporary American writers" (Malcolm Bradbury, The Washington Post Book World).
With dazzling wit, William Gaddis brings his unmatched powers of
observation and satirical sensibilities to bear on the American
legal system. "A Frolic of His Own is a tour de force. It is a
profound entertainment. It is scalding and Swiftian . . . darkly
hilarious".--The New Republic. 1994 National Book Award winner.
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