The Recognitions - Brossura

Gaddis, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1564786919 ISBN 13: 9781564786913

Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2012

Riassunto

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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William Gaddis (1922-1998) stands among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The winner of two National Book Awards, as well as a MacArthur Genius Award, a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, he wrote five novels during his lifetime. He is loved and admired for his stylistic innovations, his unforgettable characters, his pervasive humor, and the breadth of his intellect and vision.

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• Editore: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1564786919
• ISBN 13: 9781564786913
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 956