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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... Bray's fulmination ( you may thank us for not telling him you live within daily sight of the Gadfly ; he believes you a Buffalonian tout court ) , it was upstaged by yet one more Uncanny Coincidence that came to light in course of it ...
... Bray's fulmination ( you may thank us for not telling him you live within daily sight of the Gadfly ; he believes you a Buffalonian tout court ) , it was upstaged by yet one more Uncanny Coincidence that came to light in course of it ...
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... Bray as he and Prinz were intrigued by him , and that the chap had fastened himself upon the company like a solicitous mosquito . Merry Bernstein ( before she jumped the bail Drew Mack put up for her and fled underground upon Bray's ...
... Bray as he and Prinz were intrigued by him , and that the chap had fastened himself upon the company like a solicitous mosquito . Merry Bernstein ( before she jumped the bail Drew Mack put up for her and fled underground upon Bray's ...
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... Bray to his Lily Dale goat ranch , presumably as Merope Bernstein's successor , Horner grew distressed . Ambrose and I are grinning guiltily ; the whole business is bizarre ! But Bray is a lunatic . Ambrose takes my hand ; heart ...
... Bray to his Lily Dale goat ranch , presumably as Merope Bernstein's successor , Horner grew distressed . Ambrose and I are grinning guiltily ; the whole business is bizarre ! But Bray is a lunatic . Ambrose takes my hand ; heart ...
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Lady Amherst to the Author Inviting him to accept an honorary | 3 |
Todd Andrews to his father The death and funeral of Harrison | 12 |
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