Recognizing The Recognitions

[Erik T. Burns]

There's not much reason to spend time googling Gaddis' references: the
collaborative annotations at williamgaddis.org have that well in hand,
though of course always open to suggestions & improvements.

the annotations site also has the *ne plus ultra* of Gaddis experts, Steven
Moore, contributing regularly (also to the Gaddis List), and his fantastic
book *William Gaddis (*1989*) *is available online and for free as some kind
of remarkable public benefit:
http://www.williamgaddis.org/mooregaddisbk/index.shtml

The complete text of Jack Green's *Fire the Bastards!*, a deliciously
virulent and eccentric lambasting of the critics of *The Recognitions* and a
chilling book for book reviewers everywhere, is also available free online
at: http://www.nyx.net/~awestrop/ftb/ftb.htm

*The Recognitions of Clement* is also online, along with all sorts of
paleochristian texts the sorts of which the Rev Gwyon is so deeply steeped
in: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vi.iii.i.html

Finally, there's a *Paris Review* interview with William Gaddis from 1986:
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2577/the-art-of-fiction-no-101-william-gaddis
--
"What’s any artist but the dregs of his work: I gave that line to Wyatt
thirty-odd years ago and as far as I’m concerned it’s still valid."

a resource pony I would find wonderful: a collection of the artworks
mentioned in Gaddis, including the solids in Uccello ;-)
http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2008/03/the-solids-in-u.html

etb




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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>wrote:

> These prognoses of cognitive dissonance and  labyrinthine interpretive
> descent make the effort sound....even more appealing...
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:18 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Group reads almost never work, but that doesn't stop P-listers from
> > continuing to bang their heads against their keyboards.  _The
> > Recognitions_ will probably be really impossible, because (and I'm
> > barely acquainted w/ it) it isn't Pynchon (who writes things begging
> > to be Googled).
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> foax: schooling is for fish.
> >> I'm not sure a group read of _The Recognitions_ is going to work, here
> or anywhere.
> >> The book is very long and kind of takes over your life if you let it.
> (_J R_ too...)
> >> That said, there's plenty to talk about. etb
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Richard Ryan
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