The Recognitions (Dalkey Archive Edition)

William Gaddis

Language: English

ISBN isni lc_authority_name lccn oclc-owi oclc-worldcat viaf_author_id

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: Feb 7, 2012

Words: 424009
Flesch: 88.63
DDC: 813.54
FAST Tags: United States, Art--Forgeries, Art forgers, Forgery, Philosophy, Artists, Intellectual life, Painting--Forgeries
LCC: PS3557.A28
LC Genre: Literature>American and Canadian>Fiction>20th Century>1945-1999

Description:

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.