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,
“... pop up, in a frivolous or portentous spirit, and they are often relevant to the concerns of William Gaddis’s later novels, JR and Carpenter’s Gothic. One of the slighter-seeming themes is the learned American’s scorn for those of his compatriots who know no language but English. If you have ever been in Athens or Rome with an ... ”