Considered by a critic as "the greatest satirical novel in the history of American literature," Jota Erree earned William Gaddis the National Book Award. Its protagonist is an endearing eleven year old boy, Jota Erre Vansant, who builds a paper empire with nothing but a telephone and a galloping ambition that lacks scruples. Written in the unmistakable Gaddisian style of fragmentary chaos, Jota Erre is a ruthless mockery of the perversion of the American dream and how the values ​​of individualist accumulation inevitably lead to chaos and disruption. Built mainly through dialogues, Gaddis's intention was that Jota Erre reflected his view of contemporary society as "a disconnected chaos, a storm of noise." As in his posthumous novel Agape is paid (published by Sixth Floor in 2008), we find here, in a more profound and detailed way, other of the great obsessions of the author: how art is corrupted by the mechanization of everyday life, And the indisputable pre-eminence of values ​​associated with accumulation and greed. Some monumental novels have gone down in history as imperishable portraits of certain times, and Jota Erre masterfully reflects the rise and decline of American society, which is fundamental in understanding the trajectory of the Western world and the deep existential crisis In which he is immersed.