William Gaddis
Born
in New York, New York, The United States
December 29, 1922
Died
December 17, 1998
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Genre
Influences
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The Recognitions
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43 editions
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1955
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J R
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34 editions
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1975
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Carpenter's Gothic
32 editions
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1985
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A Frolic of His Own
21 editions
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published
1994
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Agapē Agape
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5 editions
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published
2002
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The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
13 editions
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published
2002
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The Letters of William Gaddis
by
7 editions
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published
2013
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Agapē Agape and Other Writings
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A Pile Fabric Primer: Corduroy/Velveteen/Velvet
6 editions
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1970
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Julian Schnabel: Amor Misericordioso
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“I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the room, aren't you, the only one who understands, and you can prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing in your life. You're the only well-educated person, because you never went to college, and you resent education, you resent social ease, you resent good manners, you resent success, you resent any kind of success, you resent God, you resent Christ, you resent thousand-dollar bills, you resent Christmas, by God, you resent happiness, you resent happiness itself, because none of that's real. What is real, then? Nothing's real to you that isn't part of your own past, real life, a swamp of failures, of social, sexual, financial, personal...spiritual failure. Real life. You poor bastard. You don't know what real life is, you've never been near it. All you have is a thousand intellectualized ideas about life. But life? Have you ever measured yourself against anything but your own lousy past? Have you ever faced anything outside yourself? Life! You poor bastard.”
― The Recognitions
― The Recognitions
“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― A Frolic of His Own
― A Frolic of His Own
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