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Title	:	The Recognitions
Author	:	William Gaddis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 976 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1993 by Penguin Classics (first published 1955)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels

The Recognitions Paperback | Pages: 976 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	The Recognitions
ISBN:	0140187081 (ISBN13: 9780140187083)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Wyatt Gwyon, Recktall Brown

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Even the great William Gass in his introduction to The Recognitions has to digress and to hem and haw about reductionism and basically admit that one cant really write about a novel such as this without diminishing its greatness rather than revealing more of it. Then he takes the ultimate cop-outto me who thinks archetypal readings are the deadest of all dead endsby noting the novels archetypal structure, which, frankly, I didnt see at all. The Recognitions is too big, with too many characters,

I've been meaning to read one of Gaddis' big novels for years now, ten or so actually. I'd always been drawn more to trying my hand with JR, but after reading Franzen's essay a few years ago on Gaddis I sort of changed my mind, and decided that if the day ever came when I'd read Gaddis I'd start at the beginning of his work. Then of course at some point I realized that being the type of person I am I had to read this book because it fills out the lower rung of the trinity of difficult post-1950

100 Words in Search of PrecisionThe purpose of both Religion and Alchemy is to realise Perfection.Christianity places an obstacle in the path: Original Sin. We are born with an Inherent Vice. Nobody will give us assurance.Our need for meaning and happiness is so great that we fall victim to fraud and pretence.Gaddis suggests we must love and we must be active, in order to be happy.We need to construct an undivided Self, a Whole, not a Soul.There is only the Self that Lives, therefore the Life

I'm actually not finished reading this yet. I'm saving the last hundred pages or so, just to savor them. I did the same thing when I read through all of Proust. Sometimes I just don't want to finish a book.This thing sat on my shelf for almost 20 years before I read it. I was intimidated by it, but I also wasn't too turned on by sections I would occassionally read. So it took me 20 years to recognize how wonderful it is. And what's strange is that it was a Recognition. I read somewhere that

What I get a kick out of is serious writers who write a book where they say money gives a false significance to art, and then they raise hell when their book doesnt make any money.- William Gaddis, The RecognitionsIve never seen novel by William Gaddis available in any library or bookstore, and the fact that he is not more widely known is something of a crime. You could compare his prose against that of any of the great writers of the last century without exception, and it would more than hold

Images surround us; cavorting broadcast in the minds of others, we wear the motley tailored by their bad digestions, the shame and failure, plague pandemics and private indecencies, unpaid bills, and animal ecstasies remembered in hospital beds, our worst deeds and best intentions will not stay still, scolding, mocking, or merely chattering they assail each other, shocked at recognition. Shocked, surprised and mesmerized by these Recognitions. Sometimes reading of a book happens without any

See the face on the book cover? That is my face now as I finish this book. That was my face every step of the way.I heard somewhere while reading this that Gaddis is praised for this work in that he made it the ultimate challenge for the reader. Yay! Let's make reading hard! #sarcasmYou know how you might read a book with 5 storylines that will change each chapter. It might be a bit confusing, but at least chapter breaks give you the chance to regroup. This book frequently mixes many storylines,