21. Scriptorium - William Gaddis Contains a profile of gaddis, along with two brief excerpts from his published works. http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/gaddis.html

By Tim Conley William Gaddis It is too sad to be rightly called irony. On December 16, 1998, the day on which a libidinal American President, counting the hours before his impeachment, launched yet another series of bomb attacks on an Iraqi population already unconscionably squeezed and starved, America's most proficient satirist died. William Gaddis was the author of four very complex novels (he completed an as-yet-unpublished fifth book, a non-fictional study of the player piano, called Agape Agape , before he passed away) and an artist inclined to avoid the trappings of celebrity. Gaddis was born in New York December 29, 1922. He went on to Harvard, but was asked to leave the college in his senior year (the circumstances of the situation are mysterious, and await the unfortunate biographer). He worked for The New Yorker for a spell in the 1950s, and absorbed experiences at the bohemian parties and happenings, to be later used as material in The Recognitions . Travel provided further resources of experience in Mexico, in Costa Rica, in Spain and Africa and, perhaps strangest to imagine of him, he was employed for a few years in public relations for a pharmaceutical corporation. The number of printed interviews with Gaddis can be counted on one hand: he wondered why anyone should expect an author to be at all interesting, after having very likely (or ideally) projected the best of themselves in their work. He has been frequently compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and especially Pynchon, and in terms of talent this must be so. Gaddis's first novel

22. Remember To Read Gaddis william gaddis died Wednesday, December 16, 1998 at the age of 75. http://www.unknownhypertext.com/readgaddis.htm

Remember to Read Gaddis He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. William Gaddis, concluding paragraph to The Recognitions William Gaddis died Wednesday, December 16, 1998 at the age of 75. While Gaddis won two National Book Awards, for his novels J.R. and A Frolic of His Own, Gaddis' work never gained a wide popular readership. The world that Gaddis describes is one in which a cacophony of disparate voices create and destroy meaning in the world. Power in Gaddis novels is diffuse. No one person is ever in control, and meaning is constantly shifting. While there are clearly rules at work, the rules themselves are not fixed. If you read a Gaddis novel and you aren't quite sure what is going on, who are the controllers and who is the controlled, you aren't alone. The characters in Gaddis' novels are most often in the same boat. People live within systems difficult to understand , and impossible to describe completely. Voices do battle in a hyper-real space where orality, voices, statements and documents of various kinds, represent the sum and total possible understanding of experience. What is said by the characters is all that is known, and what is said is open to misinterpretation, or misdirection.

23. Valencia West LRC - Gaddis, William gaddis, william (1922 ) The following reference books can be used to get both biographical and critical information about authors. gaddis, william (1922 - ). Pathfinder. June 1996 http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/gaddis.html

Gaddis, William (1922 - ) Pathfinder June 1996 The following reference books can be used to get both biographical and critical information about authors. These sources should be used as a starting pointDO NOT base all of your research on material obtained from reference books. Use these sources to become better acquainted with your author; this will allow you to utilize more effectively the sources listed under COMPREHENSIVE LITERARY RESEARCH. These sources are located at the West Campus LRC; they may also be located at other local libraries. BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES Consult the following reference sources to get an overview of your author's life. Contemporary Authors REF Z 1224 .C6 The various versions of this classic biographical source are all accessed via the Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index (REF Z 1224 .C58) Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century REF PN 771 .E5 Dictionary of Literary Biography REF PS 221 .D5 This multivolume biographical source is best accessed via the Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index (REF Z 1224 .C58)

24. Gaddis Annotations - William Gaddis, Life & Work william gaddis Life Work Peter Dempsey in the UK posted this essay, as mourningand tribute, to the gaddis discussion list the day after william gaddis died http://www.williamgaddis.org/life&work.shtml

William Gaddis in 1974 photo: Jerry Bauer William Gaddis Peter Dempsey in the U.K. posted this essay, as mourning and tribute, to the Gaddis discussion list the day after William Gaddis died, December 17, 1998. It is updated with Steven Moore's description of Gaddis's last and as yet unpublished novel, Agapé Agape. Works by William Gaddis Books The Recognitions J R New York: Knopf, 1975; London: Cape, 1976. Carpenter’s Gothic New York: Viking, 1985; London: Deutch, 1986. A Frolic of His Own New York: Poseidon Press 1994; London: Viking, 1995. Selected Articles “The Rush for Second Place” Harpers , April, 1981, pp.31-39 “The Art of Fiction CI: William Gaddis" Interview with Zoltan Abadi-Nagy Paris Review , May 1987, pp.54-89 “Old Foes with New Faces” The Yale Review No.83, October, 1995, pp.1-16 Writers in Conversation 13: William Gaddis London: ICA,1986. Videotaped Interview with Malcolm Bradbury. COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY Life William Gaddis was born in Manhattan, New York City, in 1922, a year which saw the publication of two of the great works of literary modernism, Joyce’s

25. Scriptorium - William Gaddis Bookstore Selected Works by gaddis. Recognitions william gaddis, william H. Gass(Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1993 Our Price $21.95. http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/gaddis_bookstore.html

The Libyrinth's Gaddis Bookstore All these in-print titles may be purchased online through Amazon.com, where you may purchase them online and have them shipped directly to your doorstep. For rare, second-hand, or out-of-print titles, you may use the search engines at the bottom of the page. Selected Works by Gaddis Recognitions William Gaddis, William H. Gass (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1993 Our Price: $21.95 JR William Gaddis, Frederick Karl (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1993 Our Price: $18.95 A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis / Paperback / Published 1995 Our Price: $9.60 ~ You Save: $2.40 (20%) Carpenter's Gothic William Gaddis / Paperback / Published 1999 Our Price: $13.95 (Special Order) Selected Works about Gaddis The Ethics of Indeterminacy in the Novels of William Gaddis Gregory Comnes / Hardcover / Published 1994 Our Price: $49.95 Hints and Guesses: William Gaddis and the Longing for an Enlarged Culture Christopher J. Knight / Paperback / Published 1998

26. Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview With William Gaddis Follow a transcript of an interview with gaddis about his writing style and themes. When william gaddis agreed to let us interview him, he elected the format favored by Vladimir Nabokov of written http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_gaddis.html

An Interview with William Gaddis By John Kuehl and Steven Moore Q: There seems to be a noticeable undercurrent of autobiography in your fiction. Both Willie in "The Recognitions" and especially Thomas Eigen in "J R" bear more than a passing resemblance to their author. Yet you are also one of the most reticent of writers, avoiding publicity of any kind. What are your views on the place of autobiography in artistic creation and to what extent is Thomas Eigen a portrait of the artist? Q: You said that you enjoy writing, but you have never discussed your writing habits. Do you keep a journal or notebooks? Do you have preferences as to when and where you work, etc? WG: Have I said I enjoy writing? Some high moment and I probably did, but it's nearer what Pascal, was it he? as I have it at second hand, said about no man differing more from another than he does from himself at another time. That incidentally may better explain a phenomenon like "The Brothers Karamazov." It certainly helps to explain my distaste for interviews, though this one may serve to set the record straight on a few points. Q: It's been said "The Recognitions" was edited down to its present size from a much longer manuscript. Is it true that you fundamentally agreed with the cuts suggested by your editors at Harcourt, Brace and World? How did the abandoned material differ from that in the final version? Have you come to regret any of the deletions? Did "J R" go through a similar process of editing? What part do revisions play in your compositional method?

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28. New York State Writers Institute - William Gaddis william gaddis. New York State Author 19931995. He recently received the 1993 LannanLiterary Award for Lifetime Achievement. from the works of william gaddis. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/gaddis.html

Photo Credit: Marion Ettlinger William Gaddis New York State Author “What writing is all about is what happens on the page between the reader and the page . . . What I want is a collaboration, really, with the reader on the page where the reader is also making an effort, is putting something of himself into it in the way of understanding, in the way of helping to construct the fiction that I am giving him.” William Gaddis, Albany, April 4, 1990 William Gaddis is one of the most highly-regarded American novelists, celebrated by other writers and critics as a great innovator of contemporary fiction. New York Times Book Review contributor, George Stade, described Gaddis as “a presiding genius . . . of post-war American fiction.” Through the use of dry satire and inventive irony, he examines such social, artistic and cultural themes as the fading of American culture, the fragmentation of modern society, entropy, fraud and alienation. Gaddis was born in New York City in 1922. Educated on Long Island and in Connecticut, he attended Harvard College, where he edited the Harvard Lampoon in 1941. He was a fact checker with the

29. New York State Writers Institute - William Gaddis, Books BOOKS BY william gaddis. THE RECOGNITIONS. New York Harcourt, Brace World, 1955. INRECOGNITION OF william gaddis. Syracuse Syracuse University Press, 1984. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/gaddis2.html

BOOKS BY WILLIAM GADDIS THE RECOGNITIONS JR . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. CARPENTER’S GOTHIC . New York: Viking, 1985. A FROLIC OF HIS OWN: A NOVEL . New York: Poseidon Press, 1994. SELECTED RESOURCES CRITICISM Books Green, Jack. FIRE THE BASTARDS! Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. Johnston, John. CARNIVAL OF REPETITION: GADDIS’S THE RECOGNITIONS AND POSTMODERN THEORY. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. Kuehl, John and Steven Moore, eds. IN RECOGNITION OF WILLIAM GADDIS. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1984. LeClair, Thomas. THE ART OF EXCESS: MASTERY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Moore, Steven. A READER’S GUIDE TO WILLIAM GADDIS. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Articles Auchincloss, Louis. “Recognizing Gaddis.” New York Times Magazine. November 15, 1987, pp. 36, 38, 41, 54, 58. Comnes, Gregory. “A Patchwork of Conceits: Perspective and Perception in CARPENTER’S GOTHIC.” Critique, vol. 30, no. 1, 1988, pp. 13–26. Johnston, John. “JR and the Flux of Capital.” Revue Francaise d’Etudes Americaines, vol. 15, July 1990, pp. 161–71.

30. Gaddis, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. gaddis, william. 1922–98,American novelist, b. New York City. An erudite master http://www.bartleby.com/65/ga/GaddisWm.html

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William Gaddis *1922, +16.Dezember 1998 in Three Mile Harbor/USA Stationen u.a. Amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Zwei Kinder. Freundschaft mit M. S. Dworkin . An den Rollstuhl gefesselt. Arbeitsgebiete: Gedicht, Erzählung, Roman, Hörspiel Auszeichnungen/Ehrungen/Preise (Auswahl) National-Book-Award (1975). Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl) Carpenters Gothic/Die Erlöser , Roman. The Recognitions/Die Fälschung der Welt J R, Roman A Frolic of his Own/Letzte Instanz Swallow Hard , Roman. Agapé,Agapé , Roman (2001, Penguin). Das mechanische Klavier , Roman (2002). Buchbestellung I home I e-mail -0303 © LYRIKwelt

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