the recognitions

you have to 'read' 'it'

>>9582124
It's not particularly hard. You can go to google and Gaddis anotations every time you want. With that and taking note of the names of the characters you can read it without problem. Wonderful book, btw. Benny best character.

>>9582128
>/lit/
>'read'

go back to readdit

>>9582202
Thanks, I'm very excited to start

>>9582128
holy fucking shit I never thought of that thank you so much master

>>9582221
I hope you enjoy it, man.

>>9582229
Thanks! I hope you enjoy whatever you next read, too :)

watch the documentary zeitgeist

because thats the tier of bullshit youre about to read...dont say i never warned you!

>>9582124
Just be ready for the most staunchly pro-Catholic novel of the 20th century.

If you're not Catholic, this work isn't for you.

>>9582283
>the recognitions is pro catholic

found the brainlet

>>9582283
i read for like an hour and got 26 pages in (this thing is fucking THICC) and so far it seems to be mocking protestant puritanism more than it is supporting catholicism

obviously just a teensy bit early to judge but that's my initial impression

gonna go read for another hour before bed

>>9583388
you're right. other guy likely hasn't read it and is just shitposting

is it merely the insecurity of youth that makes people start threads like this?

>>9583388
It has nothing to do with supporting religion. Get ready for some shifts in the narrative, btw.

>>9583411
Who cares? Every excuse to talk about Gaddis is well received.

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>>9583388
In my country, this book is everything.

>>9583399
It's not a shitpost. It's something Gaddis has acknowledged as not being a completely retarded interpretation.

Maybe do your homework?

>>9583456
>Glad he didn't seem to let it get him down too much.
Dude, he didn't write another book for 20 years and, even after that, all his books are pretty much him being incredibly bitter about pretty much everything and calling other people destructive idiots with no taste or passion for anything. If you read Agape Agape is pretty much a 100 pages long rant about this.

>>9583522
He even uses some of the bad reviews of The Recognitions as a joke against critics in JR. If you read some of his interviews or the wonderful afterword to Agape Agape you'll see he's a blend between the insecure aspiring artist (Bast / Otto) and the mad, feverish believer in the arts (Eigen / Wyatt). He was writing out of pure personal passion.

>>9583456
Aren't all his other books other than J R him "getting down too much."

What's Agape Agape other than him bitching that no one reads him?

>>9583440
I'll just take your smug and passive aggressive word for it.

>>9583708
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzKm44Lgdnk

>>9583411
honestly the actual 'should I prepare' thing was a pretext, I would have jumped in regardless. I just wanted a Gaddis thread

33 pages in and this book is amazing, gonna read more this morning

What is it about the prose of writers like Gaddis and Joyce that makes them feel so important? Not just that it's good prose -- they have this formal but approachable quality that makes you need to listen

>>9585382
Christianity

not even meming, they have the high seriousness combined with sly humour that was prevalent in theology until the turn of the twentieth century

>>9585392
Interesting. Do you think that tone can be emulated by reading these authors, or does one have to go back to the source?

More pertinently, *should* people be trying to emulate that, or is that style now an outdated relic?

>>9583546
The RI Coons Ignite

>>9585433

This question answers itself. Do you like it? If so, emulate it.