Pynchon and Gaddis

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'Agape Agape': Parting Shots From William Gaddis
By SVEN BIRKERTS

"How deeply and regrettably ironic it is that the novelist who worked
perhaps more ambitiously than any other to comprehend society's big
picture -- taking on finance, religion, the media and the ever-anxious
relation of the artist to his culture -- should himself be the least
comprehended figure in our recent pantheon. From the publication of ''The
Recognitions'' (1955), his massive saga of creation and forgery and an early
intuition of our age of simulation; to ''JR'' (1975), a mind-stretchingly
polyphonic satire on the confidence game of capitalist enterprise; to the
progressively more accessible novels ''Carpenter's Gothic'' (1985) and ''A
Frolic of His Own'' (1994), William Gaddis confronted our modern world
without flinching. He mapped and delved. His reach was enormous, Pynchonian,
and his tonal register was supple enough to allow him lyricism and
straight-on portraiture as well as his myriad strains of satire. Mention his
name to most readers, however, and you are likely to get a polite smile."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/books/review/06BIRKERT.html




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