Muchos son los elementos que hacen de \u00abLos reconocimientos\u00bb una obra capital de la literatura estadounidense del siglo XX. Todo resulta abrumador en esta novela descomunal \u2014descomunal en todos los sentidos que puedan imaginarse\u2014: tanto el alcance de la ambici\u00f3n que demostraba Gaddis en la que era su \u00f3pera prima, como, sobre todo, el hecho de poseer el talento necesario para consumarla. Las obsesiones propias del universo narrativo del autor ya aparecen aqu\u00ed en todo su furibundo esplendor: la crisis del arte como dominio privilegiado para representar la vida, la tensi\u00f3n entre lo aut\u00e9ntico y lo reproducible, y el imperio omn\u00edmodo de los farsantes y lo mercantil. Wyatt Gwyon, protagonista de la novela, es un pintor que a\u00fan cree en el sentido del arte en un siglo en el que \u00e9ste parece estar siendo desplazado, eclipsado, vaciado; pero parad\u00f3jicamente Gwyon es incapaz de crear nada nuevo u original. Su habilidad reside en copiar minuciosamente a los maestros flamencos, y a ese gesto interminable y reiterado, el de construir una realidad desde el pr\u00e9stamo, entrega su existencia: la suya es la tragedia de quien no encuentra m\u00e1s salida que la restauraci\u00f3n de un clasicismo que ya no cree posible.\u00abLos reconocimientos\u00bb es una de las obras maestras de Gaddis y, como han se\u00f1alado escritores de la talla de William H. Gass o Jonathan Franzen, anticip\u00f3 gran parte de la mejor ficci\u00f3n literaria que estaba por venir (Pynchon, Heller, DeLillo, Foster Wallace, etc.). Objeto del m\u00e1s justificado de los cultos, as\u00ed como de enconadas pol\u00e9micas \u2014es c\u00e9lebre el caso de Jack Green y sus art\u00edculos incendiarios defendiendo el libro\u2014, esta novela ciment\u00f3 la grandeza y la leyenda de un escritor que nunca dejar\u00eda de entregar obras de altura, y que constituye una tradici\u00f3n en s\u00ed mismo.\u2022 \u00abWilliam Gaddis es un puro prodigio\u00bb, Mary McCarthy.\u2022 \u00abUna obra fundamental, sin la que no resulta posible entender ni a Pynchon nia Foster Wallace\u00bb, Eduardo Lago, El Pa\u00eds.\u2022 \u00abLos reconocimientos es una obra magistral\u00bb, Juan Francisco Ferr\u00e9.\u2022 \u00abUn escritor \u00fanico\u00bb, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Guelbenzu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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