William Gaddis calling: telephonic satire and the disconnection of authority.(Critical Essay)

Studies in the Novel | December 22, 2003| | Copyright

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

(Ephesians 4:29)

William Gaddis's four novels of "uprooted" voices harken to the very etymology of satire: "verse medley" has become, in novels like JR and Carpenter's Gothic, an altogether more motley (and Rabelaisian) assortment of verbal exchanges. Unlike the relatively pleasant and even idyllic voyages in representational novels of satire like Huckleberry Finn, Gaddis's journey into the consciousness of ...

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