CARPENTER’S GOTHIC by William Gaddis pp. New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking. $ THIS is William Gaddis’s third work of fiction in 30 years. That sounds like a sparse stream, and misrepresents absolutely. Mr. Gaddis is a deluge. Carpenter’s Gothic is not without its difficulties; many important elements of the plot are kept from the reader until quite close to the end of the story and McCandless, the novel’s main artist-figure, can be seen as quite a complex figure that draws once again on a wide range of literary sources. At one level he represents the artist as outcast, speaking unbearable truths to those who do not wish to hear. Carpenter's Gothic is another masterpiece, not exactly easy but at least confined pretty much to a single language and words just about anyone can understand. This makes it an excellent place to start on Gaddis for those who may (understandably) be daunted by the longer www.doorway.ru by: 4.
Carpenter's Gothic () by William Gaddis. Members: Reviews: Popularity: Average rating: Mentions: 24, () This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. For more than 50 years, William 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. Carpenter's Gothic "shows again that Gaddis is among the first rank of contemporary American writers" (Malcolm Bradbury, The Washington Post Book World). The fourth of seven unnumbered chapters in William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic is set over the course of Halloween, moving from morning, into afternoon, and then night. Halloween is an appropriately Gothic setting for the midpoint of Gaddis's postmodern Gothic novel, and there are some fascinating turns in this central chapter. A summary with spoilers is not.
Just finished William Gaddis's third novel, Carpenter's Gothic. I'd been meaning to read it and, knowing I'd be out at sea for a few days, figured now was the time. The problem is that with a Gaddis novel, now is never really the time. Gaddis’s third novel in as many decades, Carpenter’s Gothic was also his bleakest satire. Its style, as well as its theme of cultural entropy in a civilization where meaning and value are. Reading Group Guide. INTRODUCTION. Early in Carpenter's Gothic, the third of William Gaddis's.
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