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The Recognitions is the 1955 debut novel of American author William Gaddis.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 literature.
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.
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 ...
J R is a novel by William Gaddis published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975. It tells the story of a schoolboy secretly amassing a fortune in penny stocks. J R won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1976. [1] It was Gaddis' first novel since the 1955 publication of The Recognitions.
Sheri Martinelli was a protégée of Anaïs Nin and is described at length in Nin's famous Diary; she was the basis for Esme, a major character in William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions, [1] and then became the long-time muse and mistress of Ezra Pound in Washington, D.C. (she appears in various guises in the later Cantos); Charlie Parker ...
Robert Coover and William H. Gass each have three works on the list, while Samuel Delany, Don DeLillo, William Faulkner, Raymond Federman, William Gaddis, Vladimir Nabokov, and William Vollmann have two apiece.
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]
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