The Tunnel

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Paperback, 653 pages

English language

Published May 1, 2012 by Dalkey archive press.

ISBN:
978-1-56478-213-7
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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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Fuck This Book

Forced my way three quarters through and it's finally time to give up and say: Fuck William H. Gass and his pompous white man edgelord entitlement to fill a tome with a constant stream of racism and misogyny to portray an evil little man. Fuck Dalkey for republishing this in 2026. Read one random sentence from one random Toni Morrison book instead and your experience will have been a hundred times more fulfilling and honest.

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Subjects

  • College teachers -- Fiction.
  • Historians -- Fiction.
  • Middle West -- Fiction.