gaddis

[Tore Rye Andersen]

bob mccart:

>who's read that gaddis and what ypu think of this stuff.

I've read all of that Gaddis, some of it even a couple of times, but I can't 
exactly say that I derived any pleasure from it. Enter at your own peril, 
would seem to be sound advice here.
Gaddis writes smart novels, but sometimes I think they seem smarter than 
they really are.  Pynchon is an author one feels could write the 
encyclopedia; and Gaddis is the author who reads it (a lot of the 'research' 
that went into The Recognitions consisted of Gaddis reading Encyclopedia 
Britannica).
Also, Gaddis comes across as an author who doesn't really like people. If 
his misantrophy was confined to his personal life, I wouldn't have any 
problem with it, but it shines amply forth in his novels as well, so reading 
Gaddis is, IMHO, something of a bleak and harrowing experience. If Gaddis 
has a choice between showing us a character's stupidity or his kindness, 
he'll show us the stupidity, each and every time.
Still, interesting stuff. I'd recommend The Recognitions and JR (the latter 
is probably his most successful and original work).

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