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- Publisher: Putnam (1984)
- ASIN: B000VARNHC
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A literary master lets us into his head.,
By jjwylie@intermind.net (Henderson NV) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Friday Book (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) (Paperback)
So you're a writer worried about the future of your art? Or you're a reader wondering if you're the last of your breed? Well, here's a book to comfort your soul (and give you a good idea of where to go next).
In this, his 1st collection of non-fiction, John Barth, long-considered a master-practitioner of fiction, gives us several dozen essays that should be on the syllabus of any class dealing with the art & craft of writing. As strong a philosopher as he is a storyteller, Barth shows us how his outlook on all things literary has affected his output, especially in the 2 strongest pieces: "The Literature of Exhaustion" & "The Literature of Replenishment." But singling out these 2 essays is like focusing on "Hamlet" and "King Lear" while ignoring the rest of Shakespeare. Like the Bard himself, John Barth is a man whose idea of play is more rigorous & demanding than most people's idea of a career (and what a career he's had!). Here's a book that will make better readers & writers out of all who read it. Oh, and it's funny as hell as well.
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Of the making of writers there is no end till The End unmakes them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dramaturgical relation, narrative involvement, mythic heroism, black humorists, day beacon, apprentice writers, postmodernist fiction, one crawling, other nonfiction, tragic view Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chesapeake Bay, Johns Hopkins, Eastern Shore, Jorge Luis Borges, Roderick Random, Penn State, Walt Whitman, Leslie Fiedler, Shah Zaman, Giles Goat-Boy, Don Quixote, Ebenezer Cooke, James Joyce, Coast Guard, Dorchester County, John Gardner, The Floating Opera, Finnegans Wake, Gabriel Garcia, John Hawkes, King Shahryar, Thomas Mann, William Gass, Axis Mundi New!
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