william gaddis "le chemin des anes" (draft of section ii, _the recogni-
tions_) "new world writing" (ny: new american library 4/52) 210-22.
(mentioned on p35 76 above)
william gaddis _the recognitions_ (u s hardcover ed, ny: harcourt, brace
& co 3/10/55 $7.50; canadian publisher, toronto: george j mcleod
$8.50)
entries include:
key # of entry, F (if to be FIRED), * (if one of 55 original
reviews)
author & title, publication, date & page no[*]
(in parentheses, page nos of references to entry in this
article)
crossreferences to other entries, giving key #s
*[Brackets contain additional bibliographic
information unavailable to Green -- S.M.]
a.l.a. (american library association) booklist
(mentioned on p2 above)
1 aldrige, john w _in search of heresy_ (ny 1956) 200-1
(p 32-3 77 above)
"amarillo news" see entries # 58 59 below
2 american institute of graphic arts _fifty books of the year 1955_
(ny 1956) #35 details of physical production of _the recog-
nitions_
"arkansas (little rock) gazette" see # 61 below
associated press, see #58 59 60 61
"atlanta journal & constitution" see #45
"atlantic monthly" see #62
"baltimore sun" (p77 77 above) see #9 below
3 F* bass, milton r "berkshire eagle" (pittsfield mass) 3/19/55 12.
(p17 19 21 23 39-40 43 44 52 55 60-1 68-9 74 75 above)
4 F* berger, john "the nation" 4/30/55 376-8
(9-10 12-3 17 27 36 42 43 54 65 72 74 75) see also #7 below
"berkeley gazette" see #87
"berkshire eagle" see #3
5 "best sellers" "index to this volume" 6/15/55 59 60 (37)
#35
"blackfriars" see #47a
6 F* bloom, edward a "providence journal" 3/13/55 vi:vi
(1 4 14-5 17 24 24 41 42 43 60 72 73 73 74)
"book of the month club news" see #32
7 _book review digest 1955_ (ny 1956) 327-8
(3 26 75) has excerpts from entries #4 10 21 26 29 38 52 62 63 74,
lists #20 36 77 79
"boston globe" see #40
"boston herald" see #68
8 F* bradley, van allen "chicago news" (& syndicated) 3?/55
(17 42 52 52 72 73 74 75 77) #106
9 F* burnette, frances "baltimore sun" 3/13/55 a14
(12 17 43 43 44-5 52 54 68 70 71 72 76 76)
10 * cahoon, herbert "library journal" 3/13/55 653 (1 56 74 75)
# 7
11 * "cedar rapids gazette" 5/1/55 [3:4] (75)
"chicago news" see #8 106
"chicago star" see #101
"chicago sun-times" see #13
"chicago tribune" see #79
"cincinnati enquirer" see # 85
"cleveland plain dealer" see #59
"cleveland press" see #57
12 * coldwell, david "dallas herald" 3?55 (41 52 72 74 75)
"columbus dispatch" see #46
"commonweal" see #20 37 48
13 * conroy, jack "chicago sun-times" 3/13/55 3:4 (53 74 75)
14 F* corrington, william "shreveport times" 8/28/55 2f
(11 11 48-9 60 60 74-5 75 76)
"critic, the" see #47
"dallas herald" see #12
"dallas news" see #41
15 * dawedeit, glendy "washington post & times herald" 3/13/55 e6
(9 41 46 47 53 68 70 71 75)
16 F* demarest, donald "the news weekly" (mexico city) late 1955? 2b 4b
(11 41 51 52 53 73 75 75)
17 * desbarats, peter "montreal gazette" 4/23/55 25
(18 21 48 57 60 74 75 75)
18 F* dixon, george "pittsburgh press" 3/20/55 [5:8]
(18 21 21 44 54 70 75)
19 dolbier, maurice 'the summing-up in books for 1955'
"saturday review" 12/24/55 11 (11) #65 94
20 F* fremantle, anne "commonweal" 4/15/55 55-7
(15-7 19 24 32 36 39 42 43) #7
21 F* geismar, maxwell "saturday review" 3/12/55 23
(3 17 19 22 32-4 53 58 58 75 78) #7
gilbert, stuart (22) see #24 26 88
22 F girson, rochelle "saturday review syndicate" (fla newspaper)
3/20/55 13 (20-1)
graves, robert see #24 88 111
23 green, jack "newspaper" #1 12/4/57 5-7 "best novel ever written
in america", #2 1/28/58 6, #4 7/3/58 5-6, #8 7/19/59 5, #10
8/31/60, #11 6/3/61 6, #12-14 2/24 8/25 11/10/62
see # 89 99 below
24 harcourt, brace & co, ad in "ny times" 3/16/55 31 (2)
excerpts from #74 below, from gilbert quote in #26 below, from
#53 59, from graves quote (see #88 below); quotes dan
wickenden "The strange and mostly rather frightening new
generation of writers has produced in Mr. Gaddis a strange,
frightening, but massive and remarkable talent"
25 harcourt, brace & co, catalog listing, before 3/55 21
draft of #26 blurb
26 harcourt, brace & co, jacket of _the recognitions_ (u s hardcover
ed) 3/10/55 (1 5-8 14 22 23 41 41-2 44 72 72 72 76 76).
#7 above blurb; quotes stuart gilbert on jacketback THE
RECOGNITIONS "is a vast and devastating picture of the
world the powers-that-be have doomed us to live in; Mr.
Eliot's Waste Land was only a small corner of the wilderness
so observantly and successfully explored by Mr. Gaddis. Such
a work might easily be lugubrious but the author's wit, irony,
and erudition, combined with a rich diversity of subject matter,
make this book fascinating reading; long though it is, even
longer than 'Ulysses,' the interest, like that of Joyce's master-
piece and for very similar reasons, is brilliantly maintained
throughout."
"harper's" (p2 above)
"hartford courant" see #49
27 F* hartman, carl "western review" winter 1956 171-6
(11 19 24 34 40 42 45 46 47 47 60 61-5 66 68 69)
28 * hayes, e nelson "the progressive" 6/55 40-1
(10 17 47 58 75 78) #96
29 F* hicks, granville "ny times" 3/13/55 br6
(3 25 26-32 46 47 47 78) #7
30 hicks, granville, rev. of paul goodman's _the empire city_ in
"saturday review" 5/23/59 20 (17 26 30 46 47 77)
32? hicks, granville (ed.) in _the living novel: a symposium_ (ny 1957)
(27 29 29-30) #73
32 * highet, gilbert "book of the month club news" midsummer 1955 8-9
(35 42 46 47 53 57 72 77)
33 highet, gilbert "artistic forgeries (ii)" wqxr network radio talk
(printed by book of the month club) 1957 (11)
34 highet, gilbert "a personal library" wqxr network radio talk
(printed by book of the month club) 6/59 (77)
35 F* hill, william b "best sellers" (univ of scranton) 4/15/55 13
(17 18 21 21 23 37 37 43 46 48 51 53 75) #5
"houston press" (p77 above)
"hudson review, the" see #72
36 F* jackson, joseph henry "san francisco chronicle" 3/17/55 23.
(17 46 53 55 69 74) #7
"keene (nh) sentinel" see #60
37 kennebeck, edwin, rev. of terry southern's _the magic christian_
in "commonweal" 4/29/60 133 (46)
38 F* "kirkus' service, bulletin from virginia" 2/1/55 93 94
(11 17 21 21 44 44 44-5 47 51 73) #7
39 F* klein, francis a (per publisher) "st louis globe-democrat"
3/13/55 5f (1 7-8 43 52 53 75 76)
40 * laycock, edward a (per publisher) "boston globe" 3/13/55 72.
(11 17 19 21 36 45 45 53 54 65 72 75)
"lewiston (ida) tribune" see #67
"library journal" (75) see #10
library of congress, see #77
little, carl victor (p77 above)
41 * livingston, myra c "dallas news" 4/3/55 vi:8
(11 11 19 32 40 48-9 52 53 70 73)
42 F* "louisville courier-journal" 3/27/55 3:8 (6 76)
43 mailer, norman _advertisements for myself_ (ny 1959) 472-3.
gaddis "of good repute"
"manchester nh news" see #58 59
44 markson, david _epitaph for a tramp_ (ny: dell publishing co 11/59;
also swedish ed) 27-8 29-31 (77-8)
45 F* mcalister, durwood "atlanta journal & constitution" 3/13/55 8e.
(10 39 52 52 54 56 57 70)
46 * mccarthy, daniel "columbus dispatch" 3?/55
(17 40 41 42 52 61 68 75 75)
47 mcnamara, eugene "the critic" (chicago, roman catholic) 4/59
94 (77)
47a mcnamara, eugene 'the post-modern american novel' "black-
friars" (london dominican monthly review) 4/62 161-9; "queen's
quarterly" (queen's university, kingston canada) summer 1962
265-75 (77)
"milwaukee journal" see #71
"minneapolis tribune" see #66
48 monaghan, charles, rev. of richard g stern's _golk_ in "common-
weal 5/13/60 190 (77)
"montreal gazette" see #17
"montreal star" see #54
49 * morse, samuel f "hartford courant" 3/27/55 mag[18]
(4 43 61 68 73)
"nashville tennesseean" see # 78
"nation, the" see #4
"new haven register" see #58 59 96
"new leader, the" (p2 above)
"new republic, the" (p2 above)
50 F* "newsweek" 3/14/55 106-7 (17 21 21 36 55 56 76)
51 "newsweek" 'summing up' 12/26/55 68 (77)
"news weekly, the" (mexico city) see #16
52 F* "new yorker" 'briefly noted' [by Brendan Gill] 4/9/55 117
(1-2 3 19 21 52 53 58 58 58 75) #7 111
"new york herald tribune" see #63 94 105
"new york post" (20 34) see #56 103
"new york times" (2 3 3 28 30 31 31 78 78) see #24 29 81 93 100
"new york world telegram & sun" see #53
"norfolk virginian-pilot" see #55
53 F* north, sterling "ny world telegram & sun" 3/10/55 22
(1 11 11 17 18 18 24 35 37 39 53 68 72 75) #24
54 F* o'hearn, walter "montreal star" 3/19/55 21
(11 18 32 33 36-7 39 43 49 52 52 54 55 60)
55 F* parke, mary eugenia "norfolk virginian-pilot" 3/13/55 3:6
(8-9 17 28 42 51 52 57 61 72)
"pittsburgh press" see #18
56 F* powell, dawn "ny post" 3/13/55 10m
(1 8 11-2 17 19-20 24 35 43 51 54 72 73 75 75)
57 * price, emerson "cleveland press" 3/15/55 10
(4 4 24 36 48 48-9 54 58-9 70-1 71 75)
"progressive, the" see #28
"providence journal" see #6
"publishers' weekly" see #104
"queen's quarterly" see #47a
"richmond times-dispatch" see #84
58 rogers, w g "author of the week" associated press (amarillo
news, manchester nh news, new haven register, tacoma
news-tribune 3/28/55 mag 1, tulsa world etc) released for
week of 3/7/55 (7:nexttolast quote only)
59 * rogers, w g, associated press (amarillo news, cleveland plain
dealer 3/13/55 56d, manchester nh news, new haven register,
tulsa world etc) released for 3/10/55 (1 7-8 53 75 75) #24 105
60 rogers, w g "books in review" associated press (keene (nh)
sentinel etc) 4?/55 (76)
61 rogers, w g "reviewing the year in arts" associated press
(arkansas (little rock) gazette 12/18/55 6f etc) (76)
62 * rolo, charles j "atlantic monthly" 4/55 80-1
(17 39 39 41 53 54 66-8 71 72 75) #7
63 F* rugoff, milton "ny herald tribune" 3/13/55 br6
(17 18 40 43 45 49 52 52 53-4 61 73 73) #7
"san diego union" see #67
"san francisco chronicle" see #36 97
"saturday review" (2 3 3 22 23 31) see #19 21 30 64 65 67 95 102
64 "saturday review" 'SR's spring poll' with intro by raymond walters
jr 4/9/95 14-5 24-3 (77)
65 "saturday review" 'the year's best' 12/17/55 12-3 (77 77) #19
"saturday review syndicate" see #22 67 91
"shreveport times" see #14
66 F* simak, clifford d "minneapolis tribune" 3/13/55 home & hobby 14.
(11 11 17 23 34-5 43 52 52 56 66 71 72)
67 F* smith, harrison (president, "saturday review") "saturday review
syndicate" (lewiston (ida) tribune 3/13/55 society 9, san diego
union, toledo blade, victoria (bc) colonist etc) released for
3/12/55 (4 11 11 19 22-3 52 53 68)
68 * snyder, marjorie b "boston herald" 3/13/55 1:4 (11 68 74 75 75)
"spectator, the" see #70 116
69 F* stevens, don "worcester telegram" 3/13/55 d7
(11 13-4 18 48 53 75-6 76)
70 st john-stevas, norman 'printers' censorship' "the spectator"
(london weekly review) 12/9/55 792 794 (36)
"st louis globe-democrat" see #39
"st louis post-dispatch" see #83
71 F* stocking, david m "milwaukee journal" 3/6/55 5:4
(39 47 52 52 65 72 75)
styron, william, see #88 111
72 * swados, harvey "the hudson review" autumn 1955 460-1
(35 43 48 54 55-6 68) #88
73 swados, harvey 'the image in the mirror' in granville hicks (ed.)
_the living novel: a symposium_ (ny 1957) (48) #31
"tacoma news-tribune" see #58
74 * "time" [by Theodore E. Kalem] 3/14/55 112 114
(2 11 17 39 42 69-70 72 73) #7 24
75 "time" 'books' 12/26/55 62 (17 77)
"toledo blade" see #67
76 F* "toronto globe & mail" 4?/55 (1 5 75)
"trace" see #92
"tulsa world" see #58 59
77 * "u s quarterly book review" (library of congress) 6/55 214-5.
(24 72 73)
"victoria (bc) colonist" see #67
"village voice" see #89 98 99 107 108
virginia kirkus' service, see #38
78 F* "b w" "nashville tennesseean" 3?/55 (4 75)
79 F* wagenknecht, edward "chicago tribune" 4/3/55 4:5
(1 5 5 24 43 50-1 54 75) #7
80 F* wagner, charles a (london?) "sunday mirror" 3/27/55 7 (8 75)
81 walker, gerald, rev. of richard condon's _the oldest confession_
in "ny times" 6/22/58 br18 (77)
walters, raymond, jr (see p77 78 above) #64 93
"washington post & times herald" see #15
82 west, anthony 'the pleasures of reading' "woman's day" 7/57
3 32-3 81-2 (17 77)
"western review" see #27
83 * wharton, will "st louis post-dispatch" 3/27/55 4b (11 36 75 75)
84 * white, ellington "richmond times-dispatch" 3/6/55 f5 (12 17 41 75)
wickenden, dan, see #24
"woman's day" see #82
"worcester telegram" see #69
wqxr network, see #33 34
85 * yeiser, frederick "cincinnati enquirer" 3/13/55 3:6
(11 17 56 59-60 75 75 77 77)
the 2d round
william gaddis _the recognitions_ (u s paperback ed, ny: meridian books
(world publishing co) late 3/62 $2.75)
86 meridian books (world publishing co) list of "spring 1962
publications" 2?/62 "A rediscovered masterpiece, an unjustly
neglected classic, a book with a numerous underground of
admirers..."
87 seelye, john d "berkeley gazette" 3/16/62 (78 79)
88 meridian books (world publishing co) back cover of _the
recognitions_ (u s paperback ed) late 3/62 blurb abridged &
slightly revised from #26 above; excerpt from gilbert quote in
#26; quotes william styron "I stand in great awe of Mr. Gaddis's
erudition, his attempted scope, his vitality, and indeed his
genuinely superior use of the language....A virtuoso of rare
charm, especially when he is being funny--which is very
funny indeed"; excerpt from #72; quotes robert graves "The
precision of William Gaddis's style is most unusual in his
generation of writers. And I am astonished that one who
shows himself so familiar and up-to-date with the mountain of
filth, perversion, falsity, and boredom revealed in _The
Recognitions_, should have managed to keep his head clear and
his heart warm, and his report readable"
89 green, jack, ad for _the recognitions_ & #12 of "newspaper" in
"village voice" 3/29/62 8 (78) #23
90 meridian books (world publishing co) "the meridian" spring 1962
3 4
91 barkham, john "saturday review syndicate" 1962 (78)
92 "trace" "the chronicle" spring 1962 99 note on #12 of
"newspaper"
93 walters, raymond, jr "ny times" 4/8/62 br14 (78)
94 dolbier, maurice "ny herald tribune" 4/14/62 6 (78) #19
95 beatty, jerome, jr 'trade winds' "saturday review" 4/21/62 8-9.
(78 78 79)
96 hayes, e nelson "new haven register" 4/22/62 (78) #28
97 hogan, william "san francisco chronicle" 4/26/62 [41] (78)
98 wilcock, john 'the village square' "village voice" 5/3/62 2.
#107 on #12 of "newspaper"
99 green, jack 'letters to the editor' "village voice" 5/10/62 4.
#23 on #98 above
100 nichols, lewis 'in and out of books' "ny times" 5/13/62 br8. (78)
101 newquist, roy "chicago star" (& syndicated in los angeles)
5/13/62 (78)
102 saal, rollene w "saturday review" 5/19/62 40 (78)
103 macgregor, martha 'the week in books' "ny post" 5/20/62 m11.
(78-9)
104 "publishers' weekly" 'paperbacks' 6/4/62 94 (79 79)
105 rogers, w g (& editor's note by irita van doren) "ny herald
tribune" 7/29/62 books 8 (79 79) #59
106 bradley, van allen 'bookman's week' "chicago news" 10/6/62 18
#8 on #12-13 of "newspaper"
107 wilcock, john 'the village square' "village voice" 10/18/62 2.
#98 mentions #109 below
108 sainer, arthur "village voice" 11/1/62 11 14 (79 79)
william gaddis _the recognitions_ (british hardcover ed,
london: macgibbon & kee 9/10/62 30 shillings
109 toynbee, philip "the (london) observer weekend review" 9/9/62.
(79) "among, to set one's sights vaguely at the right
elevation, the dozen most impressive novels in English which
have appeared since the war"
110 chitty, susan "the (london) sunday telegraph" 9/9/62 (72 79).
"pretentious...Mr. Gaddis can write and if he'd come off
the 'Ulysses' act he might be good"
111 macgibbon & kee, blurb of _the recognitions_ (british ed) 9/10/62.
"First published in New York in 1955, _The Recognitions_ has
acquired a growing reputation as one of the key novels of
our time. It has done this in a curiously 'subterranean' way.
Its first critics were baffled, if not downright hostile. Since
1955, groups of readers have discovered the book and their
admiration has led to much re-thinking about the scope and
merits of the book. To many young Americans, it is the
_Ulysses_ of the age (indeed the "New Yorker"'s first review
contained the singularly fatuous comment that the novel
was like _Ulysses_ but not as good...).* Among the first
admirers of the book were William Styron and Robert
Graves. William Gaddis lives in New York and, so far, _The
Recognitions_ is his only book"
112 coleman, john "the queen" (london weekly women's mag) 9/11/62
(72) "arrogantly presumes that its readers will
come to it prepared to examine some pages twice...
humming hollowness. Yet one wouldn't willingly have missed
whole chapters, episodes, pages and paragraphs of this
extravaganza"
113 wordsworth, christopher "the (manchester) guardian" 9/14/62.
"no doubt about the behemoth talent; the doubts lie in the
use to which it has been put....Not a sperm-whale, not
semimal. But incontestably a whale"
114 ricks, christopher "new statesman" (london weekly review)
9/14/62 [330] "much pretentious sludge....But even
the bad things have a mad aplomb"
115 "the (london) times literary supplement" [by Anthony Cronin]
9/14/62 [685] "passages of sustained brilliance and
interest which are sometimes more than half the length of
an ordinary novel...much of the time completely at sea
about what he was doing, and attempting to cover up by
sheer pretentiousness and hokum...a puzzle, at times a
rewarding one"
116 daniel, john "the spectator" (london weekly review) 9/21/62
[410] "956 pages is a lot with no developmet....The
threads are dazzling, but we step back and there is no
pattern"
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*sentence is a distortion of 2 passages on p1 above it annoyed the british
critics but wasnt strong enough to terrify them