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  • Sot-Weed Factor

    par John Barth ...
    Collections series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide.""A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the eighteenth-century picaresque novel—think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy—is ... En savoir plus

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  • The Development

    par John Barth ...
    "A merry satire about the smart, moneyed, and demanding retirees living in a gated community . . . Scintillating on the surface and churning with danger below" ( Booklist).From a National Book Award–winning author, this is a collection of "nine darkly comic stories set in a gated community on Maryland's Eastern Shore" ( Publishers Weekly).Something has disturbed the comfortably aging denizens of ... En savoir plus

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  • Postscripts

    par John Barth ...
    Collections series American Literature
    Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay—“jeux d’esprits,” as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth’s literary influences while retaining his trademark self-consciousness and willingness to play. ... En savoir plus

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  • Lost in the Funhouse (National Book Award Finalist)

    par John Barth ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence."[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." —The New York TimesFrom its opening story, "Frame-Tale"--printed ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $15.99 CAD Maintenant $11.99 CAD

  • Chimera

    par John Barth ...
    Collections series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights; of Perseus, slayer of Medusa; and of Bellerophon, rider of Pegasus and slayer of the Chimera. ... En savoir plus

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  • The End of the Road

    par John Barth ...
    Collections series American Literature
    John Barth’s second book -- a philosophical black comedy -- “a true novel of ideas” (New York Times).Struck with a sudden case of “cosmopsis,” a nihilistic paralysis that occurs in those unable to act amid a sea of choice, Jacob Horner turns to the enigmatic, questionably credentialed Doctor for help. The Doctor prescribes Jake a series of therapeutic treatments, one of which involves his ... En savoir plus

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  • Giles Goat-Boy

    par John Barth ...
    **From the author of National Book Award-nominated Lost in the Funhouse, comes an outrageously farcical adventure that challenges our notions of technology, power, and human nature."[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**Giles Goat-Boy tells the story of a human boy raised as a ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $22.99 CAD Maintenant $11.99 CAD

  • Collected Stories

    John Barth

    par John Barth ...
    Collections series American Literature
    When John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth’s writing was not a response to the realistic fiction that characterized American literature at the time; it beckoned back to the founders of the novel: Cervantes, Rabelais, and Sterne, echoing their playfulness and reflecting the freedom inherent in the writing of fiction.This collection of ... En savoir plus

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  • El plantador de tabaco

    par John Barth ...
    Transcurren los últimos años del siglo XVII, y el desafortunado y torpe Ebenezer Cooke es enviadoal Nuevo Mundo desde Londres para hacerse cargo de la plantación de tabaco de su padre y escribir La Marylandíada, un poema épico sobre la vida en la colonia de Maryland. Durante su odisea, Cooke es capturado por piratas e indios, pierde la herencia de su padre a manos de unos impostores sin escrúpulos ... En savoir plus

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  • Where Three Roads Meet

    Novellas

    par John Barth ...
    From the National Book Award winner, three linked novellas that "will stretch your mind, challenge your thoughts, and bend your reality" ( Charlotte Observer).John Barth, "one of the greatest novelists of our time" ( Washington Post Book World) and "the master of experimental fiction" ( Details), presents a lively triad of tales that delight in the many possibilities of language and its users.The ... En savoir plus

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  • Final Fridays

    par John Barth ...
    For decades, acclaimed author John Barth has strayed from his Monday–through–Thursday–morning routine of fiction–writing and dedicated Friday mornings to the muse of nonfiction. The result is Final Fridays, his third essay collection, following The Friday Book (1984) and Further Fridays (1995). Sixteen years and six novels since his last volume of non–fiction, Barth delivers yet another remarkable ... En savoir plus

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  • La ópera flotante/El final del camino

    par John Barth ...
    En La ópera flotante vemos el sinsentido del mundo a través de los ojos de un hombre que decide suicidarse. El fin del camino nos presenta a un personaje, el joven Jack Horner, que también sigue esa senda plagada de pensamientos oscuros, pero que acaba poniéndose en manos de un doctor, una brillante mezcla de santo y diablo, con quien iniciará la más extraña de las «curas». Ambas pueden ... En savoir plus

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