Erik T. Burns eburns at gmail.com
Sun Feb 6 04:41:15 CST 2011


I suggest also the new audible.com audiobook as a companion text.

On Feb 6, 2011, at 10:08, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:

> Just about everything about Gaddis is interesting.
> 
> Here's the edition we'd read:
> http://www.amazon.com/Recognitions-Penguin-Classics-William-Gaddis/dp/0140187081/ref=lh_ni_t_
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:11 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Don't know if I found it here but anyway:
>> 
>> http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2577/the-art-of-fiction-no-101-william-gaddis
>> 
>> Having read that I wonder how you cannot be interested in that author.
>> 
>> j
>> 
>> 2011/2/5 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:
>>> 
>>> Not really. Despite the fact that personally I am not interested in that
>>> author, I may remind you of
>>> the Nabokov read ("Pale Fire") which was done by a small sub-group here on
>>> Pynchon-list some years ago. Neither did it improve our knowledge of the
>>> novel itself, nor had it any positive impact on the list.
>>> 
>>> (Of course I'm fully aware that this statement of mine did not exactly
>>> reduce the probability of a Gaddis group read here.)
>>> 
>>> Just sayin' ...
>>> 
>>> KFL
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 05.02.2011 12:10, Richard Ryan wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Recognitions consensus forming?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Richard Ryan
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>     -- Hannah Arendt



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