Info on gaddis' play on german radio

[Gary Thompson]

Kai, from the plot summary you give this sounds like an adaptation of _A
Frolic of His Own_, unless _Agape Agape_ is written along the exact same
plot lines. 

_A Frolic_ is must reading--just about my favorite Gaddis (so far)--some
of his funniest, with the judge's legal opinion as hilarious as anything
legal I can remember (though the Spotted Horses trial in _The Hamlet_
and the will in _The Floating Opera_ are worth citing as well). Any
other fictional evocations of legal stuff to put alongside these?

Gary Thompson


Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
> 
> "Torschlusspanik" is "last-minute panic". Since I know practically nothing about
> Gaddis, I can't tell whether this is the beginning of Agape Agape. The summary
> says that it's about an old man who lies ill on his bed. Around him all the
> things he collected in decades: quotation-lists, newspaper-clips and books. He
> plans to publish a great work about the failing of art & the decline of the
> West. [etc.]