"Unfinished", circa 1946-1947

  • William Gaddis Papers
  • Manuscripts
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Title
"Unfinished", circa 1946-1947
Creator
  • Gaddis, William, 1922-1998 [LCNAF]
Collecting Area
  • Manuscripts
Collection Name
  • William Gaddis Papers
Description
191 pages. Typescript and holograph drafts and fragments including "Ernest and the Zeitgeist or the Centipede With the Wooden Leg," "A Father is Arrested," "On the Road to the Citadel," "Joy," "Much Virtue in 'if'," "Kotalik," "Mona, You Shall Be Free," "The Junk Hustler," "Paul's Child," "What Is There to Wait For," "A Matter of Necessity," "Arma Virumque," "Blague or, What Happened to Thursday?," "The Bloody Horse," "The Night a Star Went Out," "The Truth About the Past," "The First Papers of the Homarus Society," "In Dreams I Kiss Your Hand, Madam," "Sensation," etc. Also includes several rejection letters and notes concerning the characters in the Recognitions. Original folder labeled "unfinished"