9780316083591
On With the Story: Stories
John Barth
ISBN 13: 9780316083591
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover
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Using the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of tale-telling by a more or less desperate loving couple vacationing at their "last resort". As Scheherazade spun out her bedtime stories to save her life, the narrator of On with the Story spins out his to postpone The End, and to explore en route - wittily, mournfully, tenderly - love in modern life and postmodern literature. As the narrative cycles through the lifescapes of his subjects' stories, Barth affords a view both panoramic and microscopic of our own landscape. With eye and pen both sharp and beautiful he depicts love ranging from the obsessively puppy through the sophisticatedly fatigued, the delusionally murderous, even the quantum-physical, to the superbly fulfilled.
Review:
"The stories are often brilliant, invariably quirky riffs on the previously recycled matter of Barth's life, literary vocation, and noodling with various literary-theoretical concepts. Academe looms large, as do the pleasures of life in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay region and the dependable company of a sensitive soulmate acquired in a happy second marriage."
Kirkus, 05/01/1996
Review:"Considering Mr. Barth's distinguished record as an experimental fiction writer, ('The Floating Opera', 'Lost in the Fun House', 'Chimera', among many other books), one should not be surprised that these stories are also highly aware of the new physical realities....In probing the techniques of storytelling as he does, the author seems to be adapting these new physical laws to narrative."
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, 07/11/1996
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