By: | William Gaddis |
Pages: | 976 |
Published: | 1955 |
Genre(s): | American |
Literary Fiction | |
Art | |
Rating: | (2) |
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A great masterpiece by William Gaddis, with a new introduction by William H. Gass. The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the “ur-text of postwar ?ction” and the “?rst 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...
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27th on The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review