Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Recognitions

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 976

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Release: May 01, 1993

ISBN: 0140187081

ISBN 13: 9780140187083

The Recognitions

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 976

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Release: May 01, 1993

ISBN: 0140187081

ISBN 13: 9780140187083

More books from William Gaddis

JR

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A Frolic of His Own

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Carpenter's Gothic

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Agapē Agape

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Paris Review Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary Masters

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?