· Middle C William H. Gass Fiction pages ‘A literary event —the long awaited novel, almost two decades in work, by one of the most revered American writers of our time, author of the universally acclaimed The Tunnel’ But you already knew that If Michael Silverblatt describes The Tunnel as ‘A bleak, black book /5(). · “Middle C” was the realm of ordinary thought that Arnold Schoenberg abhorred. But for Gass, it is the model of a living, introverted mind and fodder for a symphonic anti-adventure story that is the unprecedented work of a master. Agent: Lynn Nesbit, Janklow Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Middle C tells the story of his journey—a story that is also an investigation into the nature of identity and the ways in which each of us is several selves/5(43).
You don't read William H. Gass's fiction for the plot. Nor do you read it for the delineation of character, or for nonstop action, or for erotic titillation, or for a portrait of the way we live now. In "Middle C," you will look in vain for heroes, detectives or friendly elves. You will, however, find a wizard. At 88, Gass is. Other articles where Middle C is discussed: William H. Gass: The novel Middle C () charts the mendacities The novel Middle C () charts the mendacities and misrepresentations of a music professor, beginning with his childhood escape from Nazi-occupied Austria under an assumed identity. I speculate that William Gass, like Aldous Huxley in Point Counter Point, was attempting a moderately musical structure to support a "novel of ideas." The lectures certainly start and end with a main theme, framing digressive variations in the middle.
Middle C is a novel by William H. Gass. Gass started writing it sometime after , with a first excerpt appearing in The novel tells the story and concerns of Joseph Skizzen, whose father got the family out of Austria in , pretending to be Jewish, then disappeared in London. Book Review: 'Middle C,' By William H. Gass William H. Gass' fiction has been a secret handshake among brainy readers for years. Critics universally adored The Tunnel, his opus, even though. The protagonist of Middle C is one Professor Joseph Skizzen, head of the music department at Augsberg Community College, later Whittlebaurer College. As a boy, he was moved from Austria to England in the s, the family assuming the guise of Jewish refugees, ahead of what his father sensed would be a catastrophe.
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