I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

His books are also known for their extensive use of literary and cultural allusions most of which are annotated in The Gaddis Annotations. The Rush for Second Place publiWilliam Gaddisd at the same time collected most of Gaddis's previously publiWilliam Gaddisd nonfiction. Works


Fiction
The Recognitions (1955)
J R (1975)
Carpenter's Gothic (1985)
A Frolic of His Own (1994)
Agapē Agape (completed 1998 publiWilliam Gaddisd 2002)


Non-fiction
The Rush for Second Place (collection publiWilliam Gaddisd 2002)


See also
List of novelists from the United States


Notes and.

The first and longest of his five novels The Recognitions was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others won the annual U. The Letters of William Gaddis was publiWilliam Gaddisd by Dalkey Archive Press in February 2013. Gaddis is one of the first and most important American postmodern writers.