Who influenced William Gaddis?

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>>8841398
Faggot

>>8841513
fuck off, phone poster

Goethe, I think.

ahm Joyce

>>8841550
gaddis wrote recog before he read ulysses

>>8841866
maybe he'd read Finnegan before

>>8841866
oh it shows

>>8841866
I think he never read Ulysses at all.

don delillo

>>8841968
he read it later in his life

>>8841392
Melville, Dante

>>8841392
just read the paris interview

>>8842377
He doesnt say any of his influences

your dad

agape agape is influenced by Bernhard

>>8841392
Off the top of my head, based on my reading I can say he was definitely influenced by the presocratics (Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides in particular), Plato, Aristotle, Kiekegaard, Laozi, Nietzsche, Dostoevesky, and Count Yorck...Just to name a few of the influences that are quite apparent. I have a feeling he was big into Heidegger as well.

>>8843986
lmao

>>8843986
This is both a well-informed and not entirely right post. Gaddis was so well-read that he's practically an original, because he has so many influences you can't call him overly derivative of one author. The question of influences is, ironically, one he tackles in The Recognitions, incidentally through the use of irony -- that is, a lot of allusions and starting every chapter with a quote from some fancy literary source while at the same time criticizing unoriginality through the character of Wyatt, the forger.

For all this, T.S. Eliot is probably THE major influence on him, if I had to choose one.

>>8844092
Why

>>8844092
>gaddis is criticizing unoriginality through wyatt

holy shit how is it possible to misread the book this badly

>>8844141
Please explain your point of view when expressing disagreement

I did.