The Recognitions Summary
William Gaddis

Everything you need to understand or teach The Recognitions by William Gaddis.

  • The Recognitions Summary & Study Guide
  • 6 Literature Criticisms
  • ...and more

The Recognitions Summary

In this sprawling and largely-forgotten novel of 1952, author William Gaddis takes as his theme the fake, the flaky, the fraudulent, and the phony in religion, the art world, academia and every nook and cranny he can put under his satirical microscope. In its scope, the novel is as broad as Balzac, as beat as Kerouac, and as rhapsodic as Thomas Wolfe. The characters, an always-changing stream of individual egos pitted against...

(read more from the Study Guide)

Study Pack

The The Recognitions Study Pack contains:

The Recognitions Study Guide