Tests of Time (American Literature Series) - Softcover

Gass PhD, MR William H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628970383 ISBN 13: 9781628970388

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2014

Synopsis

In "Tests of Time" (2003), Gass shares his thoughts about writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion, including essays on classic writers and contemporaries, literary "lists" and their use, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, and the First Amendment. First published by University of Chicago Press.

About this title

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.

Review:

Of all living literary figures, William Gass may count as the most daringly scathing and most assertively fecund: in language, in ideas, in intricacy of form; above all in relentless fury...

(Cynthia Ozick New York Times Book Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1628970383
• ISBN 13: 9781628970388
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 319