The World within the Word

by William H. Gass

Overview

Reprint of the 1st ed. Published in 1971.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628970395
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	07/06/2014
Series:	American Literature
Pages:	341
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

William Gaddis (1922-98) stands among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The winner of two National Book Awards (for "J R" [1976] and "A Frolic of His Own" [1995]), he wrote five novels during his lifetime, including "Carpenter's Gothic "(1985), "Agap? Agape" (published posthumously in 2002), and his early masterpiece "The Recognitions" (1955). He is loved and admired for his stylistic innovations, his unforgettable characters, his pervasive humor, and the breadth of his intellect and vision.

Table of Contents

The Doomed in Their Sinking 3

Malcolm Lowry 16

Wisconsin Death Trip 39

Mr. Blotner, Mr. Feaster, and Mr. Faulkner 45

Gertrude Stein and the Geography of the Sentence 63

Three Photos of Colette 124

Proust at 100 147

Paul Valery 158

Sartre on Theater 177

Upright Among Staring Fish 203

The Anatomy of Mind 208

Food and Beast Language 253

Groping for Trouts 262

Carrots. Noses, Snow, Rose. Roses 280

The Ontology of the Sentence, or How to Make a World of Words 308

Notes and Acknowledgments 339

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Gass is an ironist of the highest caliber.... he is an improbable éminence grise of American letters, festooned with accolades; if there is any justice in the world he will one day get his Nobel prize.... As an essayist, his prose is gorgeously musical, ticking along smoothly as if measured out by metronome. He composes miniature fugues and conducts cadenzas while meandering around his subjects...

The New York Observer - Vladislav Davidzon

The finest prose stylist in America.

Washington Post - Steven Moore

"Mr. Gass is an ironist of the highest caliber.... he is an improbable éminence grise of American letters, festooned with accolades; if there is any justice in the world he will one day get his Nobel prize.... As an essayist, his prose is gorgeously musical, ticking along smoothly as if measured out by metronome. He composes miniature fugues and conducts cadenzas while meandering around his subjects..." -- Vladislav Davidzon, The New York Observer

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"The finest prose stylist in America" -- Steven Moore, Washington Post

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From the Publisher

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