Books
December, 1975
JR (Knopf) is the Finnegans Wake of American business--an enormous, rhythmic dream preserved as if on the rolls of a player piano, performing brittle music for an indifferent audience. The novel unfolds as an endless string of conversations through which is revealed the nightmare of the American corporate structure, a system "set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good." The prodigal hero of William Gaddis' second book (his first novel, Recogniti...
