"Carpenter's"

I read a few pages of the novel and I was surprised to see that the story is known through dialog s.  I f we pause and come back reading, we lost who the speaker is because the names are not written next to the sentences. We need to go back and find out. We discover or the author introduce the characters through the dialog s. It an ingenious and an original style that Gaddis choose to write the novel. It's like the readers are watching and listening to the characters through a surveillance camera, like the behind the scene of TV shows. We can easily picture the background and get to know most characters personality even if they seem not really paying attention to each other.