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Given the importance of "The Recognitions" for so many of these writers, it's arguable that Dalkey Archive has always been a kind of spiritual home for Gaddis anyway.
A tremendous essay in Franzen's earlier collection, How to be Alone, had seen him "alone and unprepared on [the] steep-sided, frigid, airless, poorly mapped mountain" of The Recognitions.
At one point, he does a line-by-line analysis of a review that appeared in the Louisville Courier Journal, reading it alongside the jacket copy of the first edition of "The Recognitions".
Originally published in 1962 under the name Jack Green, the book is essentially a seventy-nine-page harangue against the critics whom he saw as having utterly failed to recognize the greatness of "The Recognitions".
The tone of Gass's introduction might seem unusually truculent, but it's more or less the standard when it comes to the topic of "The Recognitions" and its treatment by American critics.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The tone of Gass's introduction might seem unusually truculent, but it's more or less the standard when it comes to the topic of "The Recognitions" and its treatment by American critics.
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