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The Recognitions is the 1955 debut novel of American author William Gaddis. The novel was initially poorly received by critics. The novel was initially poorly received by critics. After Gaddis won a National Book Award in 1975 for his second novel, J R , his first work gradually received new and belated recognition as a masterpiece of American ...
William Thomas Gaddis Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. [1] [2] The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 [3] and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [4]
He also wrote his first book, A Readers Guide to William Gaddis's "The Recognitions", published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1982. This was followed by In Recognition of William Gaddis , a collection of essays by various hands, for which he wrote the introduction and contributed an essay.
Years later, Gaddis wrote the title character "J R" into a piece of political satire, which the New York Times published in 1987. [17] "Trickle-Up Economics: JR Goes to Washington" is written as the transcript of a U.S. congressional hearing on the federal budget, and J R is an official at the Office of Management and Budget. [18]
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In 1962, he also took out a full-page ad in The Village Voice heralding the paperback edition of The Recognitions (in which he again took a swipe at the critics). [3] Many in the literary scene mistakenly thought "jack green" was a pseudonym for Gaddis himself, while others believed that Gaddis paid for Green's ad.
The subplot of the canonization of an 11-year-old girl in William Gaddis's 1955 novel The Recognitions was based on Maria's case. [ 19 ] In 2003, Maria Goretti , a RAI Italian TV movie directed by Giulio Base , starring Martina Pinto as Maria, was acclaimed by critics.
The Recognitions is listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 best novels, on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels, AND in Harold Bloom's Western Canon. William Gaddis is one of the very few modern writers whom novelists whose own work regularly appears on Ten Best lists talk of in the same sentence as Proust, Joyce and Woolf. He is ...