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>>7753151
I mean it was pretty good for a fictionalized rant. I have to say he was right about the creative artist being lost for the performing one, interesting to pin the beginning of the end on the player piano. I wouldn't exactly call it amazing though, these sorts of things were covered in detail in both The Recognitions and JR through characterization and plot but maybe he just decided he really had to lay it bare? Ambivalent that the book was supposed to be written by Jack in JR but Jack was not a dying old man in JR. You should spend the three minutes to read A Hunger Artist by Kafka right now.

>>7753832
You're right about it being something already done by himself, but I think it adds a lot of value to know that it was written by a man who knows he's going to die. He pretty much goes through his own work and tells us some personal stuff around him, like his awards, the critics and such.

I know you shouldn't criticize a work outside the work but knowing about Gaddis work and his circumstances by the end of the century gives a better feel to the work.

Also, it became one of my favorite stream of consciousness, maybe because it was kinda easy to follow.

>>7753826
lol