William Gaddis

From the time “J R won the National Book Award in 1976, Gaddis has been recognized as one of the foremost voices in post-war fiction.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Harold Bloom

To Soar in Atonement: Art as Expiation in Gaddis’s The Recognitions by Joseph S. Salemi

“For a Very Small Audience”: The Fiction of William Gaddis by
Susan Strehle Klemtner

No More Sea Changes: Hawkes, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Barth by
John Z. Guzlowski

“il miglior fabbro”: Gaddis’ Debt to T.S. Eliot by Miriam Fuchs

Love and Strife in William Gaddis’ JR Stephen by H. Matanle

Ironic Allusiveness and Satire in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions by Elaine B. Safer

Carpenter’s Gothic; or, The Ambiguities by Steven Moore

Toward Postmodern Fiction by John Johnston

At Home in Babel by Jonathan Raban

A Frolic of His Own: Whose Law? Whose Justice? by Christopher J. Knight

The Importance of Being Negligible by Peter Wolfe

Chronology
Contributors
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index