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What does "omne ignotum per obscaenum" mean? I know that it must be latin phrase, but I've yet to find a definition...
I don't now about DeLillo, but is there any concrete evidence that Thomas Pynchon was "influenced" by William Gaddis? It is entirely possible that Pynchon never laid hands on a book by Gaddis.
I've added rudimentary pages of their own for Gaddis's six books, with links to the Gaddis annotation page for each (except for Rush, which has none?). Probably worth adding Jack Green and Fire the Bastards! as well. ( dan visel 20:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC))
Is there any reason to think that JR from the TV show Dallas is a reference to Gaddis's JR?
There's more on Jack Green in the introduction to the Dalkey Archive Press edition. He isn't Gaddis. Roger Allen ( talk) 08:20, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Franzen should not be included as an "admirer" of Gaddis'. He has twice written strong criticism of what he sees as 'overly intellectual' narration, and famously attacked Gaddis in particular in two essays, most notably in "Harper's". In fact, his criticism has prompted responses from David Foster Wallace and William Gass, both of whom defended Gaddis.
The Harper's essay is a criticism of Gaddis' later works, but Franzen still states his admiration for The Recognitions in the essay. However, it would be OK to remove Franzen from the list. Torerye 10:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Talk about people who haven't read the Anxiety of Influence. The Corrections is heavily indebted to the R's. Chip Lambert is a slightly more likeable version of Otto Pivner, boards a plane to a failed state like Otto, repeatedly rewrites a (bad) play like Otto (Gaddis, incidentally, did the same thing, though he eventually stitched it into Frolic). Mr. Difficult admits as much. Franzen is famous for having Oedipal relationships with male writers (read his carping and invidious "eulogy" of Wallace, whom he definitely admired, to see). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.217.233.23 ( talk) 17:33, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
It's inaccurate that the main narrative in A Frolic of His Own is a satire of the litigation around Richard Serra's Tilted Arc. There is a subsidiary plot concerning a sculptor named Szyrk who is the creator of a series of public sculptures called Cyclone 7 that is likely inspired by the controversies around Tilted Arc, but the main plot concerns a history professor named Oscar Crease who is suing the producers of a civil war film entitled The Blood in the Red White and Blue for plagiarizing his play Once at Antietam. Some have suggested Gaddis' inspiration for the main plot was the Buchwald v. Paramount case. I don't know if this has been confirmed by his children or if there is evidence in the collection of Gaddis' papers at Washington University in St. Louis to support this.
Why is this in here at all?
Jonathan Franzen, who in an essay in The New Yorker called Gaddis "an old literary hero of mine", dubbed him 'Mr. Difficult', stating that "by a comfortable margin, the most difficult book I ever voluntarily read in its entirety was Gaddis' nine-hundred-and-fifty-six-page first novel, The Recognitions."[9] Franzen continued: "In the four decades following the publication of The Recognitions, Gaddis's work grew angrier and angrier. It's a signature paradox of literary postmodernism: the writer whose least angry work was written first."
For one, it omits Franzen's entire thesis of the essay. Secondly, it seems to have nothing to do with influence - calling someone a literary hero does not mean you were influenced by them, nor does saying it was the most difficult book. Finally, the entire final sentence, i.e. "Franzen continued..." makes a value judgment that has nothing to do with an article about Gaddis. It is Franzen's opinion of Gaddis' work, which Franzen has admitted he could not read. How does this provide readers with information about Gaddis in an objective manner? Eesome ( talk) 21:00, 13 June 2013 (UTC)Eesome
Is there a way to come to a consensus on this and thus alter it? I think mentioning Franzen's essay is of note, and there are certainly other authors who have stated or been mentioned as having been influenced by Gaddis; however, having Franzen dominate this section seems subjective and off topic. Eesome ( talk) 18:16, 9 July 2014 (UTC)Eesome
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