Title:: [[Agapē Agape]] Authors:: [[William Gaddis]] Tags:: #fiction Read:: [[2025-10-25]] Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQPdvo5jn-6/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[The Viking Press]], 2002 - Original Copyright:: 2002 - Pages:: 128 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9780142437636 ## Cover Photo `` ## Annotations A fever dream of a novel with a dying narrator obsessed with finishing his lifelong work about the player piano. This obsession is focused on the idea that the player piano marks the point where mechanical reproduction started replacing human performance and creativity.  This is a decidedly devastating development for our narrator, and his manic digressions through history are peppered with sharp observations about cultural deterioration and a dim view of the masses’ tastes.  Published posthumously with autobiographical echoes, I know people don’t put it in the same conversation as his more renowned works. Maybe that’s a mistake because in a world with Sora, deep fakes, and a rapid dissolution between what’s real and not, Agapē Agape speaks louder with each new development.