Lost In The Funhouse; Fiction For Print, Tape, Live Voice is John Barth's response to a gauntlet Marshall McLuhan was throwing down back in the heady days of the sixties regarding the immanent demise of the work of art as printed text and the subsequent decline in the fortunes of the Gutenberg fa...
Boisterous, Hilarious, Satirical, Epic Frolic Set in Seventeenth Century London and Colonial MarylandA Goodreads buddy described this book as "a rollicking tale". Good description.Don't expect brevity or logic here.I already knew Barth was a formidable and unique writer, since I'd read and love...
SCHEHERAZADE AND HER OFFSPRING----"A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, ARABIAN ENTERTAINMENT," JOHN BARTH'S "DUNYAZADIAD," ITALO CALVINO'S "INVISIBLE CITIES," GÜNELI GÜN'S "ROAD FROM BAGHDAD," AND ASSIA DJEBAR'S "A SISTER TO SHEHERAZADE"----FROM THE WORLD LITERATURE FORUM RECOMMENDED CLASSICS AND MASTERPI...
A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) "an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual." Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange a novel's worth of letters during a 7-m...
Faccio una premessa: commentare questo libro è molto difficile, qualunque cosa scriverò se ne potrebbero scrivere migliaia di altre, quindi sempre una visione incompleta ne darò, per cui consiglio di leggerlo per chi ne fosse incuriosito. Per leggerlo sappiate che occorre armarsi di molta pazienz...
Q: MUSIC, ESPECIALLY jazz, has played a significant role in your life and your writing, has it not? A: Yes and no. My years as an ardent amateur and semiprofessional jazz drummer were certainly an important part of my life from my teens into my forties. But except for passages in the novel/memo...
I. Newett’s afore-specified birthday, he long since out to pasture from Academia and his wife enjoying a last well-earned sabbatical leave before her own retirement, the couple treated themselves to their first-ever cruise-ship cruise: eight days on the Baltic and North Seas (Stockholm/Copenhagen...
“Don’t ask me,” Anastasia said, before I’d thought to. “Kennard took him in there to calm him down, and next thing I knew it was like that. They’ve been at it since before lunch.” From her account I gathered that the bandaged man was Dr. Sear; his malady was no curabler than before, but surgical ...
Hors D'oeuvres and Appetizers "Hey, Rob! Hey, Shirley! Come on in, guys!" "And the Beckers are right behind us. Hi-ho, Debbie! Hi-ho, Peter!" "Come in, come in. Nametags on the table there, everybody. Drinks in the kitchen, goodies in the dining room and out on the deck. Yo there, Jeff and Marsha...
That dictators burn Jews and businessmen vote Republican, that helmsmen steer ships and ladies play bridge, that girls study grammar and boys engineering all at behest of the Absolute Genital? When the synthesizing mood is upon one, what is more soothing than to assert that this one simple yen of...