BARTH, John (Simmons)

BARTH, John (Simmons)
(1930-)
   US novelist. One of the leading fabulists (FABULATION) of his generation of writers, he is probably best known for his epic mock-picaresque The Sot-Weed Factor (1960; rev 1967). Giles Goat-Boy, or The Revised New Syllabus (1966), which derives its language in part from Vladimir NABOKOV and its central metaphor of the university as the world in part from Jorge Luis BORGES, can, by taking the metaphor literally, be read as sf. The hero is rendered literally as goat-horned. The novel itself is a complex SATIRE on education, human nature and knowledge, and also a remarkable Bildungsroman. Some of JB's later short fiction, as assembled in Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice (coll 1968; exp 1969), contains some intensely academic FANTASY, and Chimera (coll of linked stories 1972) hovers at the edge of the fantastic in its literalization in narrative form of the powers of mythopoeisis.Other works: Letters (1979); The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991).
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  • John Simmons Barth — noun United States novelist (born in 1930) • Syn: ↑Barth, ↑John Barth • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author …   Useful english dictionary

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