Lost in the Funhouse

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3.0
4 reviews
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224
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Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction.  Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.

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3.0
4 reviews
CatgirlKazu (TacticalRainboom)
February 28, 2018
This book is either a brilliant self-parody of postmodernism, or the work of someone who has his head so far up his own ass that he can write an entire novel's worth of "lolmeta" and think that he's done something original and clever. The great majority of stories have nothing to say beyond "This story is aware that it's a story!" and "Conventions of writing and fiction sure are silly, aren't they?" Read this if you like to touch yourself while thinking about how smart you are for reading things that are ~subversive~ and super-duper-triple-ironic-self-aware. For everyone else, you could get the same intellectual content and a much more enjoyable experience playing The Stanley Parable, which has a free demo, or Doki Doki Literature club, which is free.
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About the author

John Barth was born on May 27, 1930, in Cambridge, Maryland. As a student at Johns Hopkins University he was fascinated by Oriental tale-cycles and medieval collections, a body of literature that would later influence his own writing. He received his BA from Johns Hopkins in 1951 and his MA in 1952. He has held professorships at Pennsylvania State University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Boston University, and taught in the English and creative writing programs at Johns Hopkins.   Barth’s first novel, The Floating Opera (1956), was nominated for the National Book Award. The End of the Road (1958) was also critically praised. In 1960, The Sot-Weed Factor—a comic historical novel—established Barth’s reputation. Giles Goat-Boy (1966) was a huge critical and commercial success, after which he revised and republished his first three novels. Lost in the Funhouse, a book of interconnected stories, earned him a second nomination for the National Book Award. His other works are Chimera (1972), a collection of three novellas, which won the National Book Award; Letters (1979), an epistolary novel; Sabbatical: A Romance (1982); and The Friday Book (1984), a collection of essays.

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