Letters: A NovelPutnam, 1979 - 772 σελίδες Basically, [Barth] takes several people from his early novels and has them all starting to write to each other, and to him, their letters and experiences directing the plot. And what starts out as what could be a too-cute literary trick winds up being extremely revealing, as the characters pour themselves into the letters, regardless of whom they're writing to, as the plot skips and slips through time. On one level it acts as a sequel to those early novels, continuing their stories and although it's not really required to read those books, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't help. The best thing to do would be to read those old novels in one block and then move onto this . . . I read them some years ago so I was a little fuzzy on the finer points. But I picked it up. But Barth captures the voices of his old characters well and even if you didn't know who was writing what letter, you could tell. And thus they tell the recepient, and us, about their hopes and fears, they mingle together, they lie, they come unglued, and by the end you sort of get a tapestry of their thoughts. There's a plot weaving through here but sometimes it becomes hard to connect it with six different people discussing different angles of it with you, but I just went with it and enjoyed the writing for what it was. --Michael Battaglia at Amazon.com. |
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... Americans " in May burnt the castles of the Onondagas . In August the Butler Rangers & the Mohawks were badly beaten at Newtown , near Elmira . And in the autumn , " American " troops swept thro the Finger Lakes & Genesee Valley country ...
... Americans " in May burnt the castles of the Onondagas . In August the Butler Rangers & the Mohawks were badly beaten at Newtown , near Elmira . And in the autumn , " American " troops swept thro the Finger Lakes & Genesee Valley country ...
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... American - Orientals were even more ingenious about it , for example , and the Spanish , Greeks , and Germans were no slouches either - the inclination to see in it a national trait , especially one to be criticised , was American ...
... American - Orientals were even more ingenious about it , for example , and the Spanish , Greeks , and Germans were no slouches either - the inclination to see in it a national trait , especially one to be criticised , was American ...
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... American newspapers are praising Ross for his restraint in Washington : his firing only of public buildings , his care not to harm noncombatants ; such solicitude is not what Prevost wants , and Cochrane is determined this time that ...
... American newspapers are praising Ross for his restraint in Washington : his firing only of public buildings , his care not to harm noncombatants ; such solicitude is not what Prevost wants , and Cochrane is determined this time that ...
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