Comprehending Gaddis
D.A.N. Jones, 6 March 1986
Carpenter’s Gothic
by William Gaddis.
Deutsch, 262 pp., £8.95, February 1986,0 233 97932 8 Show More
by William Gaddis.
Deutsch, 262 pp., £8.95, February 1986,
“... understanding a French notice by his hotel window in Paris: he opens the window and the facade of Henry’s Hotel collapses. Earlier in the book, we have come across some smart-ass visitors at a Greenwich Village party misunderstanding one another’s use of Greco-Latin words. ‘Philogyny? I thought you said phylogeny.’ ‘I said, misogyny recapitulates ... ”