Tras siete an?os de matrimonio, Susan Rachel Allan Seckler ?una aguda profesora de literatura norteamericana, en parte judi?a, en parte gitana, y posiblemente descendiente de Edgar Allan Poe? y Fenwick Scott Key Turner ?ex-agente de la CIA y autor de un...
En La ópera flotante, finalista del National Book Award en 1956, vemos el sinsentido del mundo a través de los ojos de un hombre que decide suicidarse. El fin del camino nos presenta a un personaje, el joven Jack Horner, que también...
Concebida como una parodia del Ur-mito y una alegoría de la guerra fría en clave de novela de campus, esta obra es una prodigiosa locura llena de humor y desencanto, un texto complejo y carnavalesco, ambicioso y divertido donde lo mitol&oacu...
Transcurren los últimos años del siglo XVII, y el desafortunado y torpe Ebenezer Cooke es enviado al Nuevo Mundo desde Londres para hacerse cargo de la plantación de tabaco de su padre y escribir La Marylandíada, un poema &eacu...
The year is 2045 and a well respected newspaper columnist, David Cohen, is offered a once in a lifetime assignment. David is accustomed to his somewhat mundane lifestyle, and suddenly finds himself in unfamiliar territory and danger. David is desperate...
As young Jake Horner's mind became an increasingly paralyzing cobweb of dark thoughts, he turned for help to an extraordinary doctor--part saint, part evil-genius, a weird combination of faith healer, magician, and devil. And in so doing Jake found...
Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957. It is a first-person reminiscence of the day Todd Andrews decided to commit suicide. Having picked up some sense of the French Existentialist writers from...
When Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Not only did the book reach a popular audience, but it also became a staple of what was being read in universities across America. Suddenly there was a "new kind...
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST â¢Â John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence.