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  The Recognitions (Paperback) By (author) William Gaddis, Introduction by William H Gass

  

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  Short Description for The RecognitionsA great masterpiece by William Gaddis, with a new introduction by William H. Gass.
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  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Published: 07 February 2012
  • Format: Paperback 956 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781564786913 ISBN 10: 1564786919
  • Sales rank: 30,092

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• The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the ur-text of postwar ction and the rst 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.