Comprehending Gaddis
D.A.N. Jones, 6 March 1986
Carpenter’s Gothic
by William Gaddis.
Deutsch, 262 pp., £8.95, February 1986,0 233 97932 8 Show More
by William Gaddis.
Deutsch, 262 pp., £8.95, February 1986,
“... where else do you get a name like that?’ To us cocky British snobs who call the great man ‘Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ and don’t much mind what he called himself, the ‘mistake’ of the tourists is not tragical. But, for William Gaddis, this sort of ignorance leads up to the climax of The Recognitions, where his most admirable character – Stanley, the ... ”