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The Recognitions by William Gaddis.
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"William Gaddis was born in New York City in 1922. His earlier and only other published work, The Recognitions, appeared in 1955." That is the complete biographical note on the jacket of Gaddis's seco...
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For William Gaddis, writing novels entailed a quasi-religious seriousness, akin, in spirit, to a ceremony of consolation. His novels may appear different from one another on the surfaces; yet, they ea...
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Critical Essay by Peter William Koenig
[Few] outside of a coterie of devoted followers have read or even heard of The Recognitions…. We have now had, however, access to some of Gaddis' m...
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Critical Essay by Maxwell Geismar
In some quarters of the literary scene today William Gaddis's novel "The Recognitions" is bound to be praised to the skies, and this reviewer kee...
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Critical Essay by Charles J. Rolo
[The Recognitions] is an immensely long first novel whose spiritual forebears are Joyce's Ulysses, Eliot's The Waste Land, and Gide's The Counter...
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Critical Essay by James J. Stathis
[In The Recognitions, the] canvas overflows with characters who are fatally infected with a malady that the author naturally attributes to decayed religious, profess...
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Critical Essay by Joseph S. Salemi
Despite the intricacies of structure and design that have gone into the making of The Recognitions, there is apparent in the work, as in the flamenco music so loved ...
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Critical Essay by J. Bakker
In a world in which people cling to their separateness, originality as a justification of their claim to individuality is of prime importance. But what if they lack origina...
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William Gaddis
Critical Essay by Peter William Koenig
