Letters of William Gaddis by William Gaddis

Author:William Gaddis [Gaddis, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Literary Criticism, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781564788375
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2012-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Wisconsin quarterly: see note to 21 August 1964.

Koenig: Peter William Koenig, “‘Splinters from the Yew Tree’: A Critical Study of William Gaddis’ The Recognitions,” PhD diss., New York University (1971).

page 689: fearing that his art career began with copying a forgery, Wyatt discovers that the Bosch painting he copied from was indeed the original, not a fake, so he says with considerable relief, “—Thank God there was the gold to forge!

To Matthew Gaddis

[WG enclosed a review of Rudolph Wurlitzer’s novel Quake in which Morris Dickstein discusses “the One Big Book syndrome”: “Such disparate writers as Ralph Ellison, William Gaddis, Joseph Heller and Thomas Pynchon appear to have fallen prey to the syndrome in the last two decades [...]. Instead of publishing, they have tantalized their admirers with fragments of work in progress, which quickly conspire with time to make the Work itself seem all the more elusive” (New York Times Book Review, 22 October 1972, 4).]

Piermont, NY

2 November 72

Dear Matthew,

Can’t believe it. Thursday again. I’m beginning to think there are more Thursdays than other days of the week because each one reminds me how fast time is passing.

And I hardly needed the enclosed reminder in the New York Times Book Review of having appeared to fall prey to the One Big Book problem, and trying to solve it by writing Another Big Book . . . I am not ‘trying to tantalize’ admirers of The Recognitions by just publishing fragments of J R . . . apparently I’m regarded as an ‘experimental’ writer, and one thing that takes so much time with J R seems to be that since it’s almost all in dialogue I’m constantly listening, write a line and then have to stop and listen, does it sound like this character talking? and get across his feeling and appearance without me describing them? Anyhow they spelled my name right . . . [...]

with much love from Papa

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