NP - Gaddis

[Mark Kohut]

Don't think Booth Tarkington was called a genius, even in his time. Not now. 

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> On Jul 10, 2017, at 1:55 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is there genius in The Corrections? What did I miss?
> 
>> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All our circles of info are different but I thought I was occasionally seeing Gaddis's genius being accepted and praised more, as Franzen's slowly recedes to one book, THE CORRECTIONS, and that so yesterday--as good and important as Booth Tarkington, I said to somebody--- but for contemporary events.
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>>> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 7:13 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I finished The Recognitions about two years ago and after being blown away by it, was soon at a loss to describe it. Where does one begin?
>>> I’m surprised that you don’t hear his name more often. I think I only came across it in a DFW essay.
>>> Has anyone read JR? Trying to get the nerve up to start that one.
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 9, 2017, at 12:18 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The New Yorker just had a long piece on Texas and it's politics, some harbinger of the future of America with its starved and obscene, religious wing nuts, ad infinitum.
>>>> Gaddis was and remains for me  a refreshing cudgel upon the heads of such rampant stupidity and malice but reading the article leads one to think it's gotten even worse.
>>>> It's funny how often Gaddis gets trashed now beyond the idiot Franzen. Yet no one has reached the heights WG landed in just 4 novels.
>>>> 
>>>> rich
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I've spent the past couple of years feeling like one of those halfwit monks described in The Swerve. This is the first period of time I've had to read something big on the ever expanding list.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Given how hard it was to find for so long, I'm certain not everyone has The Recognitions, so I wanted to share the moment when I believe I may have fallen in love....
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Your father's father, she corrected him sharply, but her voice broke, almost bitter as she looked away, not for the death of her brother but to insinuate that he had abandoned her in this bondage of mortality. She talked to Wyatt familiarly of death, as though to take him with her would be the kindest expression of her love for him possible: still, she never spoke directly of death, never named it so, but continued to treat it with the euphemistic care reserved elsewhere for obscenity.
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>>>>> It sets up like Bierce, and then the punchline is not another artfully engineered clause or sentence - it's ONE word.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It gives me wood......
>>>>> 
>>>>> love,
>>>>> 
>>>>> cfa
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