John Barth
Birth date: May 27, 1930
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Ho letto accelerando (per quanto possibile) l’attività cerebrale perché mi chiedevi di capire rapidamente “ora” - che in quel preciso istante era ormai un inesorabile “allora” - dato che forse non saresti vissuto sino alla fine del capitolo. Allo stesso modo avrei potuto avere lo stesso destino io, ...
I honestly don't know if this is the Barth I've read. I just feel like they'd all be very much the same. I read one of the major Barth books in my 20s and was bored by how lazy it was. Nothing so enamored with narrative technicalities should be called surreal, nor did it have any source of parody or...
“In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke…”The Sot-Weed Factor hooked me from the first sentence.John Barth's novel was inspired by a poem of the same name written by Ebene...
A kind of shady lawyer spends his spare time trying to understand why his father committed suicide and why he should not follow his example. It takes him the whole novel to realize the simple nihilistic truth that if there is no reason to do anything there is no reason to kill yourself. Surprising...
"But though the black man had heard their inquiries with worshipful attention, his eyes had shown more love than understanding; all they could get from him was his name, which - through it was doubtless from no civilized tounge at all - sounded variously to Ebenezer like Drehpunkter, Dreipunkter, D...
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