Are any of Gaddis' other works as Salinger-esque as JR? It finally just clicked for meat the introduction of Eigen's wife and their relationship followed by Schramm's suicideand I'm hoping The Recognitions has the same, despite its main focus on following the story ofFaust.
>>8138421
Bump
Just a sentence, for gods sake
The Recognitions isn't that much like JR to be honest, you have to consider how much time there was between these two novels. The Recognitions itself took like seven years to write and JR wasn't published until twenty some odd years after that.
>>8138653
Thanks, fella.
>>8138421
>I'm hoping The Recognitions has the same, despite its main focus on following the story of
I haven't read JR since The Recognitions is my first Gaddis, but it really doesn't focus on the thing you're saying it does as much as you'd think. It was originally supposed to be the focus of the book, but over half of it is random parties in Manhattan with a motley crew of pseudo intellectuals.
The third person narrator (I guess you can say Gaddis himself) is sort of Holdenesque in that the book is about how fraudulent everything is.
>>8139054
Just what I was hoping for. Does it go into familial dysfunction at all?
>>8139101
Yes, but not with any large families and not for that long.
