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No Ending to The Recognitions

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on January 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »

It took nearly five months but I managed to read all the words in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. In honor of Old Masters use of triptych (Wyatt, the main character forges old Flemish paintings), this is the third in a series about reading the novel. The first concerning descriptions of the sun and the second [...]

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Report from the middle of The Recognitions

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »

(First post on The Recognitions) In the middle of this wonderful book, many characters are running around trying to one up most everyone else–most significantly the character Recktall Brown (yes, Recktall Brown) has the forger Wyatt making false masterpieces of 500 year old Flemish Art. But Otto, the failed and flailing playwright, in love with [...]

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The Sun is Your Friend (Read The Recognitions)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on August 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »

This will be the first in what may prove to be several installments on this tome by William Gaddis. Yes, it’s 954 pages (Penguin edition). Yes, it’s astounding. I urge you to put aside all else and read this novel. Another author’s first rule on writing is to ‘Never open a book with weather.’ While [...]

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Guest Post, by Matthew Kirkpatrick: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. – William Gaddis, the last line of The Recognitions

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