The Gaddis Annotations
(www.williamgaddis.org)
This post is the first in a series of
Sobriquet Magazine weblog
entries to highlight some of the best resources we have come across
online. We start with a quasi-scholarly site devoted to an
oft-overlooked giant of postmodern American letters,
William Gaddis.
Although
The Gaddis Annotations
rather humbly describes itself as "[n]otes, sources, references for the
works of the great 20th-century novelist," the website proves to be one
of the most comprehensive single-author reference works online. In
addition to comprehensive annotations for each of Gaddis's novels, the
Annotations
site offers a detailed scholarly bibliography, full-text critical
essays and books devoted to the author, biographical information,
interviews, reviews, and obituaries, as well as fan-oriented features
such as a selection of reader-submitted reminiscences dubbed "How I
Discovered Gaddis" and a list of Gaddis's appearances in fiction. In so
effortlessly combining the fun with the academic,
The Gaddis Annotations easily joins
The Modern Word as one of the most impressive resources for students and lovers of postmodern literature to appear online.
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