Agapē Agape

Title: Agapē Agape
Author: William Gaddis
Fiction: 1686441
ISBN: 9780142437636
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Section: Fiction | Literary
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.