The Recognitions

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book The Recognitions by William Gaddis, Dalkey Archive Press
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Author: William Gaddis ISBN: 9781564786968
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Publication: February 7, 2012
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press Language: English
Author: William Gaddis
ISBN: 9781564786968
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication: February 7, 2012
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both”—The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake. Gaddis anticipates by almost half a century the crisis of reality that we currently face, where the real and the virtual are combining in alarming ways, and the sources of legitimacy and power are often obscure to us.
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The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both”—The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake. Gaddis anticipates by almost half a century the crisis of reality that we currently face, where the real and the virtual are combining in alarming ways, and the sources of legitimacy and power are often obscure to us.

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