''Agapē Agape'' is a novel by

William Gaddis William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, '' The Recognitions'', was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two oth ...

. Published posthumously in 2002 by

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

with an afterword by Joseph Tabbi, ''Agapē Agape'' was Gaddis' fifth and final novel. It was published in Great Britain with the contents of '' The Rush for Second Place'' as ''Agapē Agape and Other Writings'' by Atlantic Books in 2004. ''Agapē Agape'' is written in a paragraphless, monophonic style strongly reminiscent of that of Austrian writer

Thomas Bernhard Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizat ...

, who is referred to in the book itself. The first word of the title is the Greek '' agapē'', meaning divine, unconditional love.

External links

Annotations to ''Agapē Agape'' at williamgaddis.org
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