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Title: My Cicero for all future engagements William Gaddiss Agap Agape under

the influence of Thomas Bernhard.


Abstract: While affinities derived from the late discovery of the novels by Thomas
Bernhard (specially The Lime Works, Concrete and The Loser) in William
Gaddiss posthumous monologue have often been mentioned, there has not been
an exhaustive approach to it yet. It should study the choice of a different
narrative voice in the literary career of the American author (from the previous
dialogic preponderance to a monolithic monologue) as well as the influence of
the Austrian novelist in the way of treating some recurrent themes in both
writers. For instance, the deconstruction of the Romantic figure of the genius
(condemned to solitude and who inspires fear in everyone around) or the
contempt for the masses as cultural consumers (Bernhard deprecates the
Viennese society while Gaddis who first quoted Bernhard in a February 1995
letter complains about U.S. democracy). Both writers also agree in the defence
of an aesthetic aristocratism, the preference for a work in progress rather than a
finished work and the anguish at not being able to impose order and unity to it
due to the fragmentary (post)modern condition.

my Cicero for all future engagements sobre la influencia de T. B. en AA


Aunque desde la publicacin del monlogo pstumo de WG se han sealado afinidades
derivadas del descubrimiento de la obra TB por parte del autor norteamericano, an no
se ha producido un acercamiento exhaustivo al cambio de tcnica narrativa que en la
trayectoria de WG supone AA (de la preponderancia del dilogo al extenso bloque
monologado) y a la confluencia en el tratamiento de temas como la deconstruccin de la
figura del genio (de raz romntica y abocado a la soledad, que produce temor en
quienes se le acercan), el desprecio por la masa [En B es la sociedad vienesa, en G la
democracia norteamericana] como consumidora cultural y la defensa de un
aristocratismo (excelsitud, elitismo) esttico, la sustitucin de la obra acabada por su
construccin in fieri y la desazn ante el fracaso de cualquier tentativa por imponer
unidad a la condicin fragmentaria de la modernidad.
My Cicero for all future engagements William Gaddiss Agap Agape under the
influence of Thomas Bernhard.
While affinities derived from the late discovery of the novels by Thomas Bernhard in
William Gaddiss posthumous monologue have often been mentioned, there has not
been an exhaustive approach to it yet. It should study the choice of a different narrative
voice in the literary career of the American author (from the previous dialogic
preponderance to a monolithic monologue) as well as the Austrian novelists influence
in the way of treating some recurrent themes in both writers. For instance, the
deconstruction of the Romantic figure of the genius (condemned to solitude and who
inspires fear in everyone around) or the contempt for the masses as cultural consumers
(Bernhard deprecates the Viennese society while Gaddis who first quoted Bernhard in
a February 1995 letter complains about U.S. democracy). Both writers also agree in the

defence of an aesthetic aristocratism, the preference for a work in progress rather than a
finished work and the anguish at not being able to impose order and unity to it due to
the fragmentary (post)modern condition.
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