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Recognitions | William Gaddis
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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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Violetta
The Recognitions | William Gaddis
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Finally got these beauties in my collection
❤️🧡🖤 #bookhaul #homelibrary

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MrBook
Recognitions | William Gaddis
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2/4 This describes me. 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #LitsyHumor

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Me watching One Day At A Time. "She said nalgas. I understood the nalgas part!" (It means buttocks) 5y
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Gravitysrainbow
The Recognitions | William Gaddis
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One of the most tremendous books ever written. I read it over a couple weeks sitting in a turret for a training exercise. Gaddis‘s complete mastery of prose in multiple languages, and themes running as far back as Mithraism in the search for authenticity make it an impressive read. He captures the lives of everyone contained in the book in beautiful detail depicting their various attempts at recognizing authenticity in each other. 10/10.

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Leftcoastzen
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Birthday of William Gaddis (1922-1998) 956 pages , he worked on it 7 years, & most of the reviews were negative .JR is published, wins National Book Award.Now ,The Recognitions is on the Time list of 100 Best Books 1923 -2005.It sits like a brick, unread.Gaddis influenced Pynchon,DeLillo,& David Foster Wallace.A friend of mine wrote his Masters thesis on it , almost lost his mind. Will 2018 be the year I read it?Any Littens out there read it?

Liz_M I liked it! It doesn't have to be a deep read where you research all the things. A surface read can be quite enjoyable. 7y
Leftcoastzen @Liz_M Thanks, good to know ,I wanna give it a try . 7y
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MrBook
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shawnmooney Wow, thank you so much! You made my day! 💖💖 8y
MrBook Appropriate recognition duly shared 😊👍🏻. Thank you for making excellent posts, don't stop. 8y
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Getting ready to start this beast!