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  • William Gaddis

    …publication of his controversial novel The Recognitions (1955). This book, rich in language and imagery, began as a parody of Faust but developed into a multileveled examination of spiritual bankruptcy that alternately was considered a brilliant masterpiece and incomprehensibly excessive. It became an underground classic, but, discouraged by the harsh…

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    …publication of his controversial novel The Recognitions (1955). This book, rich in language and imagery, began as a parody of Faust but developed into a multileveled examination of spiritual bankruptcy that alternately was considered a brilliant masterpiece and incomprehensibly excessive. It became an underground classic, but, discouraged by the harsh…

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