plot
1 rushed reading of the recognitions makes hash of the plot
which Plot does not exist (bloom)a careless 1st reader of war & peace might forget who the characters are & lose the storyline each time its interrupted by tolstoy remarks on history if he dared to write a review at this point itd be like jack- son's who got derailed by the caricature sections in gaddis book: There is small use trying to outline any plot in so diffuse a book.snyder mysteriously judges that "time and place have little importance" in the story in desbarats' fantasy the camera may have discouraged authors from attempting the novel proper "stories can be told, through television and movies, more effectively in dramatic form, as they were in Shakespeare's time" by who, chayefsky? can greshams law connect the audience of tens of millions with the one of tens of thousands? if not, the dishonest tv stories cant drive out the honest novels Gaddis tells us not only a story but what he thinks of it.maybe not! you should shun the quoteprecis of the recognitions in #10 of newspaper & buy the book instead, but my digest does show that gaddis has a clear storyline/lines his storyline has much the same function as in most novels, including realistic ones & all the above comments are from fools bass, taking the opposite suspicion, is just as wrong: Every character in the book had drowned along the way, dragged |