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Title	:	The Tunnel
Author	:	William H. Gass
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 652 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1999 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published February 21st 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. American. Novels. Literary Fiction

The Tunnel

William H. Gass

Paperback | Pages: 652 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 1304 Users | 180 Reviews

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Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction to his magnum opus. The Tunnel meditates on history, hatred, unhappiness, and, above all, language.

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Original Title:	The Tunnel
ISBN:	1564782131 (ISBN13: 9781564782137)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	William Frederick Kohler
Literary Awards:	American Book Award (1996), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1996)

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We have not lived the right life But is there the right life to be lived?The Tunnel is one of those books one drowns in like in the ocean.The man of action has a destiny, a star he follows, and it draws him on like the Magi, or so its said; the taillight of a car, its said; the flag of a deer. The creator courts the muse, pays tribute and pursues: sucks, sips, sniffs, puffs, pops, screws for the favor of his Fancy. The visionary sees the future like a dream-draped dressmakers dummy, as silks

The Tunnel ConceitThe tunnel is an authorial conceit on the part of William H Gass as well as his protagonist, William F. Kohler.It's probably best to abandon any preconceptions of what it might mean when you enter either tunnel as a reader.The metaphorical tunnel doesn't represent an escape route out of anywhere, nor does it represent a method of entry into somewhere else.Instead, it constitutes a long strange trip or journey through the mind of the first person protagonist. At this level, the

Some attempts to explain William Gass: i) I put him in the same category as Burton, Shakespeare and Joyce. If you disagree now, wait until I'm done, when you'll disagree even more: these four men, extraordinary geniuses in their own way, are the ultimate specialists. None of them have any imagination whatsoever. Their books either lack or steal plot and their ideas are predominantly dull or second-hand. Burton got around this problem by writing a medical treatise. Shakespeare stole almost

It feels like I have been reading this for as long as Gass spent writing it; its a hefty tome and not easy to read. The primary character around whom all this revolves is William Frederick Kohler (I am reliably informed that in the US the word Kohler has plumbing connotations). He is a middle-aged history professor at a mid-western university who has just completed writing his magnum opus, Guilt and Innocence in Hitlers Germany. He is struggling to write the introduction and reflecting on his

Gorgeously disgusting. Alliteration, assonance, consonance, and rhyme are all wielded in the name of bitterness - the fascism of the heart. My initial impression was that the style of The Tunnel approximates a jumbling-up of Omensetter's Luck, as though the difficult, distressed, singsongy (sure, a degraded-and-ing song at that) middle portion of OL were mixed in with the more pleasant prose from other portions. I'll have to reread the O Luck to see if those thoughts really hold court or not.

Consider that William Gass created this masterpiece over roughly the same time frame it takes to pay off the average mortgage -- 652 pages in 30 years. One has to respect such care in crafting The Tunnel. How many times was this draft edited to create in essence a final draft written at the plodding, prodding pace of 22 pages per annum? Gass took more time crafting The Tunnel than Joyce did Ulysses. And it shows. The syntax is not of this world. His use of metaphor is off the charts in its

When this book was published in 1995 by Alfred Knopf, I was in the middle of deep reading on the Holocaust. Many of the titles I still hold in my library. I felt at the time that an inundation in this subject matter kept me from enjoying The Tunnel. I was wrong about that, though I am deeply thankful to MJ for jogging me back into a reconsideration of the novel. I stopped reading at page 55. The main reason: lack of narrative pleasure. Let me explain.First, the premise: a US academic