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“Agape agape and other writings” by William Gaddis
“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 his ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, I distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.”
Taken from Penguin.
See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/books/parting-shots.html
http://www.williamgaddis.org/critinterpessays/secrethistoryaa.shtml
The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in reading this recommendation, you can check its availability at library catalogue.
Agape agape and other writings / William Gaddis. — London: Atlantic Books, 2004. — 272 p. ; 20cm
ISBN-1 903809-84-3
PS3557.A28 A73 2004
