Letters
A landmark of postmodern American fiction, Letters is (as the subtitle genially informs us) an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual. Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange a novel's worth of letters during a 7-month period in 1969, a time of revolution that recalls the U.S.'s first revolution in the 18th century - the heyday of the epistolary novel. Recapitulating American history as well as the plots of his first six novels, Barth's seventh novel is a witty and profound exploration of the nature of revolution and renewal, rebellion and reenactment, at bot…
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Weitere Autoren: John, Barth
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-061-4
- EAN: 9781564780614
- Produktnummer: 19339657
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 772 S.
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JOHN BARTH's fiction has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. For many years he taught in the writing seminars at John Hopkins University. He is the author of such seminal works as The Sot-Weed Factor, Chimera (for which he won the NBA), and Giles Goat-Boy.
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