Agapé Agape (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Gaddis
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Art or artists, Death or dying, Pianos or pianists
Surrounded by the documents and papers accumulated over the course of his life, the dying man who narrates Agapé Agape is desperate to convey what he can of his work. The title is a pun: agapé is a Greek word referring to unconditional brotherly love and community, now most commonly used by Christians. For such love to be agape may mean that it has been torn apart, or caught off-guard and surprised. Indeed, in tracing the history of the player piano to other developments in the modern world—including the rising use of binary (which in turn led to the computer age), as...
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