Скачать книгу (размер 3539Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Биографии и Мемуары , Язык : en Аннотация: Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922-98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding-school and …
Скачать книгу (размер 206Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more …
Скачать книгу (размер 1287Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: With the publication of the «Recognitions» in 1955, William Gaddis was hailed as the American heir to James Joyce. His two subsequent novels, «J R» (winner of the National Book Award) and «Carpenter s Gothic,» have secured his position …
Скачать книгу (размер 573Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their «carpenter gothic» rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting …
Скачать книгу (размер 2631Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the “ur-text of postwar fi,ction” and the “fi,rst great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn’t read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both”—The Recognitions is …
Скачать книгу (размер 2898Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, J R is a biting satire about the many ways in which capitalism twists the American spirit into something dangerous, yet pervasive and unassailable. At the center of the novel is a …