So these are two books written by two incredibly famous, talented American (to the extent that Saul Bellow considered himself American) writers nearing the end of their careers, and for Gaddis the end of his life, that are both about 100 or so pages long, were published nearly at the same time and address a lot of the same ideas and issues, focusing on mortality, doubles and doubling, the mechanization of life, the impossibility of representing time in literature, a catalog of language, and various […]