Recognizing The Recognitions

[Erik T. Burns]

o-oh and I forgot the Finding-Aid for the William Gaddis Papers at
Washington University, St Louis:
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00049.html


I just found this gem, which is all kinds of On-Topic for the Pynchon-l:

*From Donadio, Candida to Gaddis, William , 1963: March 05  **sent from NYC;
concerns tarot card reading*

(Steven Moore is editing a collection of WG's correspondence to be published
by the Dalkey Archive).







On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> *
> *
> <http://www.williamgaddis.org/mooregaddisbk/index.shtml>* *
>
> 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:
>> >
>> >
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>>
>> --
>> Richard Ryan
>> New York and the World
>> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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