The Great American Novel

Fiction & Literature, Classics, Literary
Cover of the book The Great American Novel by William Carlos Williams, Blackmore Dennett
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Author: William Carlos Williams ISBN: 9788832520538
Publisher: Blackmore Dennett Publication: February 18, 2019
Imprint: Language: English
Author: William Carlos Williams
ISBN: 9788832520538
Publisher: Blackmore Dennett
Publication: February 18, 2019
Imprint:
Language: English

First published in 1923 in Paris in an edition of three hundred copies, this satiric novel by the great American poet is "a satire on the novel form in which a little -(female) Ford car falls more or less in love with a Mack truck." For the most part, however, this work is a serious attempt to write a novel with the recognition that such a work is impossible to write within established conventions. 

The Great American Novel ends up being a scathing critique of colonialism, Americanism, manifest destiny, and the creative process. Beautiful wordplay and hilarity and theft of various texts and brilliant phrasing abounds. 

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First published in 1923 in Paris in an edition of three hundred copies, this satiric novel by the great American poet is "a satire on the novel form in which a little -(female) Ford car falls more or less in love with a Mack truck." For the most part, however, this work is a serious attempt to write a novel with the recognition that such a work is impossible to write within established conventions. 

The Great American Novel ends up being a scathing critique of colonialism, Americanism, manifest destiny, and the creative process. Beautiful wordplay and hilarity and theft of various texts and brilliant phrasing abounds. 

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