The Great American Novel, William Carlos Williams
The Great American Novel, William Carlos Williams
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The Great American Novel

Author: William Carlos Williams

Narrator: Sara Morsey

Unabridged: 3 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 09/07/2021

Synopsis

This is an unusual short classic by poet William Carlos Williams.Written in 1923 and originally published in France, The Great American Novel examines the impossibility of writing such work in America.Williams not only writes the novel with poetic satire and pathos but allows us into his writing process, as he strives to define a young America at the end of a World War and the beginning of the “Roaring ‘20s.”

About William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. While poetry was his main literary focus, he occasionally wrote short stories, plays, novels, essays, and translations. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by MJ

An early étude on the impossibility of writing Grand American Narratives, Williams’s first published prose work is a thorny experiment where various voices, stories, histories, and styles intermix in a muddled manner, with frequently illuminating sentences lurking within the playful bippety-bop. The......more

Goodreads review by Sheridan

If you have never read The Great American Novel by William Carlos Williams, then I suggest one of two options: A. Skip this intro and dive in cold. Nuevo Mundo! B. Read this intro so as to better prepare for the coming assault. Assault because that’s what this book does to my brain: assaults it vio......more

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