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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]
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]
Pages in category "Novels by William Gaddis" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... The Recognitions This page was last ...
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 ...
Reid—who took the name from a racing form after he quit his job to become a freelance critic—particularly admired Gaddis' 1955 novel The Recognitions, which flopped upon being published. Reid believed that the commercial failure of the hardcover edition of Gaddis' novel was the result of it having been panned by literary critics.
A Frolic of His Own is a book by William Gaddis, published by Poseidon Press in 1994. It was his fourth and final novel published during his lifetime. It won his second U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1]
J R (1975) by William Gaddis [43] The Dead Father (1975) by Donald Barthelme [44] The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel García Márquez [45] American Splendor (1976-2008) by Harvey Pekar [11] A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick [18] If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino [11] [46]