Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Literary Library)
Language: English
Published by Anchor, 1988
- Softcover
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- Title
- Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Literary Library)
- Author
- Barth, John
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0385240872
- ISBN 13
- 9780385240871
"[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." —The New York Times
From its opening story, "Frame-Tale"--printed sideways and designed to be cut out by the reader and twisted into a never-ending Mobius strip--to the much-anthologized "Life-Story," whose details are left to the reader to "fill in the blank," Barth's acclaimed collection challenges our ideas of what fiction can do. Highlights include the Homerian story-wthin-a-story-within-a-story (times seven) of "Menalaiad,' and "Night-Sea Journey," a first-person account of a confused human sperm on its way to fertilize an egg. All of the characters in Lost in the Funhouse are searching, in one way or another, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence. Together, their stories form a kaleidescope of exuberant metafictional inventiveness.
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