John Barth

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Beschreibung

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.

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• Größe: 1.28MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

John Barth is our most celebrated postmodernist. From the appearance in 1956 of The Floating Opera, his first published book, through the essay collection Final Fridays, released in 2012, he has published at least two books in each of the seven decades spanning his writerly life thus far. Thrice nominated for the National Book AwardThe Floating Opera, Lost in the Funhouse, and Chimera, which won in 1973Barth has received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. A native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, he taught for twenty-two years in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He now lives in Florida with his wife Shelly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628974737
• Artikelnr.: 63915437