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  • 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.
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