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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... learned that Harrison's father , in his last years , had caused his poop to be preserved in pickle jars . In '37 , when we used those jars ( I mean the gardener's misuse of them as fertilizer for Mrs. Mack's zinnias ) to win Harrison ...
... learned that Harrison's father , in his last years , had caused his poop to be preserved in pickle jars . In '37 , when we used those jars ( I mean the gardener's misuse of them as fertilizer for Mrs. Mack's zinnias ) to win Harrison ...
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... learned , had been Peter's agent in the transaction - he had persuaded Erdmann , a quondam realtor and builder , to include in the deal a set of blueprints from his files , and was already dickering with him and another contractor for a ...
... learned , had been Peter's agent in the transaction - he had persuaded Erdmann , a quondam realtor and builder , to include in the deal a set of blueprints from his files , and was already dickering with him and another contractor for a ...
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... learned since the publication of G.G.B. about actual computer applications in such areas as literary structural analysis and the generation of , say , hypothetical plots : information laid on me by workers in the field of artificial ...
... learned since the publication of G.G.B. about actual computer applications in such areas as literary structural analysis and the generation of , say , hypothetical plots : information laid on me by workers in the field of artificial ...
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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 |
Jacob Horner to Jacob Horner His life since The End of | 18 |
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