The Tunnel (1995)

by William H. Gass

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This is another one of those beasts that I'll have to put off until I'm ready. So much intertext and diagrams and metafiction. I can really enjoy this one, I can tell from the marvelous prose. But I'll have to wait and learn some more.

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Huge, difficult, bad-tempered, confusing. Probably a masterpiece, and certainly written by a genius. If only I could finish the book. (

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A strange and monumental novel that took William Gass three decades to write. When a Midwestern historian sits down to write the introduction to his magnum opus study of the Third Reich, he instead writes a chaotic, obscure and labrynthine exploration of his personal history. Then he begins digging a tunnel from the basement of his house. The writing, the digging, and the reader's reading blend into one profound meditation on history, evil, the living and the dead. PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist.

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