1. Scriptorium - William Gaddis William Gaddis was the author of four very complex novels (he completed an asyet-unpublished fifth book, a non-fictional study of the player piano, http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/gaddis.html

By Tim Conley William Gaddis Agape Agape , before he passed away) and an artist inclined to avoid the trappings of celebrity. Gaddis was born in New York December 29, 1922. He went on to Harvard, but was asked to leave the college in his senior year (the circumstances of the situation are mysterious, and await the unfortunate biographer). He worked for The New Yorker for a spell in the 1950s, and absorbed experiences at the bohemian parties and happenings, to be later used as material in The Recognitions . Travel provided further resources of experience in Mexico, in Costa Rica, in Spain and Africa and, perhaps strangest to imagine of him, he was employed for a few years in public relations for a pharmaceutical corporation. The Recognitions (1955) is a 956-page saga of forgery, pretension, and desires misguided and inexpressible. Critical response to the book ranged from cool to hostile, but in most cases (as Jack Green took pains to show in his book of rebuke, Fire the Bastards! ) reviewers were ill-prepared to deal with the challenge, and evidently many who began to read The Recognitions JR (1975; winner of the National Book Award), only 726 pages long:

2. William Gaddis - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Gaddis was born in New York City to William Thomas Gaddis, who worked on Wall Street and in politics, and Edith Gaddis, an executive for the New York http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaddis

William Gaddis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search William Gaddis December 29 December 16 ) was an American novelist. He wrote five novels, two of which won National Book Awards Contents Biography Works See also References ... edit Biography Gaddis was born in New York City to William Thomas Gaddis, who worked "on Wall Street and in politics," and Edith Gaddis, an executive for the New York Steam Corporation. When he was 3, his parents separated and Gaddis was subsequently raised by his mother in Massapequa Long Island . At age 5 he was sent to Merricourt Boarding School in Berlin Connecticut . He continued in private school until the eighth grade, after which he returned to Long Island to receive his diploma at Farmingdale High School in 1941. He entered Harvard in 1941 and famously wrote for the Harvard Lampoon (where he eventually served as President), but was asked to leave in 1944, supposedly because of a drunken brawl, though the circumstances are unclear. He worked as a fact checker for The New Yorker for two years, then spent five years traveling in

3. William Gaddis - Britannica Concise Gaddis, William American novelist of complex, satiric works who was considered one of the best of the post-World War II modernist writers. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9365112/William-Gaddis

document.writeln(AAMB1); Gaddis, William Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article William Gaddis born Dec. 29, 1922, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 16, 1998, East Hampton, N.Y. U.S. novelist. He attended Harvard University and later wrote speeches and screenplays. His long experimental novels are characterized by complex and allusive plotting and language and a dark (if often humorous) view of contemporary American society. His first, The Recognitions (1955), a multileveled examination of spiritual bankruptcy, was only belatedly recognized as a masterpiece. Discouraged by its reception, he published nothing more until JR (1975, National Book Award), which depicts greed, hypocrisy, and banality in business. His later novels are Carpenter's Gothic (1985) and A Frolic of His Own (1994, National Book Award). document.writeln(AAMB2); More on "William Gaddis" from the 32 Volume Gaddis, William - American novelist of complex, satiric works who was considered one of the best of the post-World War II modernist writers. Gaddis, William Thomas

4. Remember To Read Gaddis William Gaddis died Wednesday, December 16, 1998 at the age of 75. While Gaddis won two National Book Awards, for his novels J.R. and A Frolic of His Own, http://www.spinelessbooks.com/unknown/readgaddis.htm

Remember to Read Gaddis He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. William Gaddis, concluding paragraph to The Recognitions William Gaddis died Wednesday, December 16, 1998 at the age of 75. While Gaddis won two National Book Awards, for his novels J.R. and A Frolic of His Own, Gaddis' work never gained a wide popular readership. The world that Gaddis describes is one in which a cacophony of disparate voices create and destroy meaning in the world. Power in Gaddis novels is diffuse. No one person is ever in control, and meaning is constantly shifting. While there are clearly rules at work, the rules themselves are not fixed. If you read a Gaddis novel and you aren't quite sure what is going on, who are the controllers and who is the controlled, you aren't alone. The characters in Gaddis' novels are most often in the same boat. People live within systems difficult to understand , and impossible to describe completely. Voices do battle in a hyper-real space where orality, voices, statements and documents of various kinds, represent the sum and total possible understanding of experience. What is said by the characters is all that is known, and what is said is open to misinterpretation, or misdirection.

5. New York State Writers Institute - William Gaddis William Gaddis is one of the most highlyregarded American novelists, celebrated by other writers and critics as a great innovator of contemporary fiction. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/gaddis.html

Photo Credit: Marion Ettlinger William Gaddis New York State Author “What writing is all about is what happens on the page between the reader and the page . . . What I want is a collaboration, really, with the reader on the page where the reader is also making an effort, is putting something of himself into it in the way of understanding, in the way of helping to construct the fiction that I am giving him.” William Gaddis, Albany, April 4, 1990 William Gaddis is one of the most highly-regarded American novelists, celebrated by other writers and critics as a great innovator of contemporary fiction. New York Times Book Review contributor, George Stade, described Gaddis as “a presiding genius . . . of post-war American fiction.” Through the use of dry satire and inventive irony, he examines such social, artistic and cultural themes as the fading of American culture, the fragmentation of modern society, entropy, fraud and alienation. Gaddis was born in New York City in 1922. Educated on Long Island and in Connecticut, he attended Harvard College, where he edited the Harvard Lampoon in 1941. He was a fact checker with the

6. William Gaddis - Wikipedia Translate this page Zu Stéphane Mallarmé, William Gaddis, Robert Coover, Oswald Wiener, Raymond Federman, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan und die Wissenschaft(en). http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaddis

William Gaddis aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche William Gaddis 29. Dezember in New York 16. Dezember in East Hampton ) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller . Im Jahr 1955 ver¶ffentlichte er seinen ersten, mehr als tausend Seiten starken Roman The Recognitions (dt. "Die F¤lschung der Welt") , ein Werk, das in der amerikanischen Literatur vielleicht nur von Thomas Pynchons Gravity's Rainbow an Komplexit¤t ¼bertroffen wird. Inhaltsverzeichnis Leben Werk Literatur Weblinks ... Bearbeiten Leben Gaddis gilt als einer der wichtigsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein Erfolg stellte sich aber erst sp¤t ein. Nach dem High School Abschluss begann er 1941 ein Literaturstudium an der Harvard Universit¤t , die er aber nach vier Jahren wegen schlechten Benehmens verlassen musste. Er arbeitete f¼r die Zeitschrift The New Yorker und sp¤ter als Dokumentarfilmer f¼r die US Army. Im Jahr 1955 ver¶ffentlichte er seinen ersten, mehr als tausend Seiten starken Roman The Recognitions (dt. "

7. Madinkbeard » Blog Archive » Agape Agape By William Gaddis William Gaddis is known — at least by those who have actually heard of him — for long, dense novels such as The Recognitions (1955) and J R (1975). http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/agape-agape-by-william-gaddis

lb_path = "http://madinkbeard.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/lightbox/"; Quotes: Duchamp, Poe, Borges, James Literature Agape Agape by William Gaddis Comment? Gaddis, William. Agape Agape . (Viking, 2002). (Originally apperaed in (now defunct) The Readerville Journal (Nov/Dec 2002). The Recognitions (1955) and J R (1975). If you were to remove from those the complicated plots woven together with darkly humorous elements of chance, the vast arrays of characters and the pages and pages of dialogue (usually unattributed) you would be left with Agape Agape He revisited the player piano project often during his life. A short excerpt was published in The Atlantic Monthly (1951); a summary was sent to publishers during the 1960s and pages of his notes were worked into J R Agape Agape can be considered a novella more than a novel, especially since it lacks what most readers would expect from the novelistic form: plot, dialogue and characters. What we do get is a 96-page monologic paragraph, spoken to the reader by a dying writer as he attempts to organize and finish his last work. It is more reminiscent of Beckett than those with whom Gaddis is generally grouped, such as Pynchon and DeLillo. The text incorporates Plato (banished poets), Walter Benjamin (art and reproduction), Freud, Melville, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Glenn Gould, ancient Greek concepts of inspiration and texts related to the player piano, such as this ad:

8. Wiki William Gaddis William Gaddis (29.12. 1922 16.12. 1998.) bio je ameri ki romanopisac. Napisao je pet romana, od kojih su dva dobila Nacionalnu književnu nagradu. http://wapedia.mobi/sh/William_Gaddis

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10. Literary Encyclopedia William Gaddis William Gaddis was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1922, a year which saw the publication of two of the great works of literary modernism, http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1665

11. William Gaddis@Everything2.com William Gaddis was born in Manhattan. He attended Harvard but did not obtain a degree. After working as a fact checker at The New Yorker, http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=William Gaddis

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13. William Gaddis - Index - Gaddis Annotations The gaddis Annotations Notes, sources, references for the works of the great 20thcentury novelist william gaddis I feel like part of the vanishing breed http://www.williamgaddis.org/

The Gaddis Annotations Notes, sources, references for the works of the great 20th-century novelist William Gaddis "I feel like part of the vanishing breed that thinks a writer should be read and not heard, let alone seen. I think this is because there seems so often today to be a tendency to put the person in the place of his or her work, to turn the creative artist into a performing one, to find what a writer says about writing somehow more valid, or more real, than the writing itself." from his acceptance speech for the National Book Award in Fiction for J R , April 1976 The Recognitions JR Carpenter's Gothic A Frolic of His Own ... All contents © 2000-2005 by the Gaddis Annotations site and the original authors, contributors, publishers, and publications.

14. Remembering William Gaddis A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE was held May 6th for the late william gaddis, the esteemed novelist who died last December. The course of my life was irrevocably changed http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/moore.htm

CONJUNCTIONS: A Web Exclusive Remembering Mr. Gaddis Steven Moore A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE was held May 6th for the late William Gaddis, the esteemed novelist who died last December. The course of my life was irrevocably changed by my discovery of his work in 1975, and after nearly 25 years of writing and thinking about his titanic novels, I felt compelled to attend this tribute to the man who, I am now convinced, is the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century. The tribute was held in the august auditorium of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, into which Gaddis was inducted in 1984. As it happens, the last time I had seen Gaddis was in the same building five years earlier, an awards ceremony where Gaddis and the other members of the Academy sat on the stage (like the faculty at a graduation), facing us like totems guarding the gates of American literature. Gracing the stage this time was a smaller but well-chosen group: Sarah Gaddis, his daughter, began the event on an elegiac note, almost breaking down in tears as she confessed how difficult it was to adjust to the absence created by her father's death. (She once wrote an autobiographical novel, Swallow Hard , largely about her relationship to him.) She was followed by gentleman-novelist Louis Auchincloss, who gave an overview of Gaddis's achievement (in a sumptuous Anglo-American accent) and paid tribute to his vast erudition. Auchincloss is known for his legal novels, but he admitted Gaddis's knowledge of the law far exceeded his.

15. William Gaddis — Infoplease.com gaddis, william, 1922–98, American novelist, b. New York City. An erudite master of satire and black comedy, he was both praised and criticized for his http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0819966.html

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Home Previously About/Contact/Submit Ed ... an interview with William Gaddis The Recognitions , but there was no fanfare to speak of . (via MetaxuCafe More Fun with Amazon Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Fleisch-Kincaid Index Complex Words Words Per Dollar: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Fleisch-Kincaid Index Complex Words Words Per Dollar: The Recognitions by William Gaddis Fleisch-Kincaid Index Complex Words Words Per Dollar: by Thomas Pynchon Fleisch-Kincaid Index Complex Words Words Per Dollar: The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann Fleisch-Kincaid Index Complex Words Words Per Dollar: Ulysses by James Joyce Fleisch-Kincaid Index Complex Words Words Per Dollar: The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers Fleisch-Kincaid Index Complex Words Words Per Dollar: And here are the winners. Best Words Per Dollar Value: William T. Vollmann Richard Powers Most Difficult to Read: Thomas Pynchon (w/ David Foster Wallace a close second) Easiest to Read: William T. Vollmann (w/ James Joyce a close second) Gone Fishing UPDATE: UPDATE THE SECOND: NYTBR NYTBR People NO BROWNIES FOR YOU, MR. TANENHAUS!

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