Book summaryIn this collection of non-fiction, a continuation of THE FRIDAY BOOK (1985), John Barth tackles questions such as: What is inspiration?, Can it or fiction writing be usefully taught?, What is postmodernism? He also expounds on the short story as opposed to the long one, and literary influences from Scheherazade and Cervantes to Jorge Luis Borges and Donald Barthelme. Media reviews"...[O]scillates between the straightforward focus of the professor or literary critic immersed in textual exegesis and the self-induced (at times self-indulgent) flights of the poet's fancy. Among the more engaging entries are those tracing the influence of Spanish and Latin-American fiction on Mr. Barth's own work, and one investigating the intellectual and social sources and meanings of minimalism as a major 20th-century genre." |
Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984-1994by BARTH, JOHN
Book description: Boston: Back Bay Books/Little Brown, 1995. Softcover. Fine/No. Trade paperback. Softcover. Fine copy.
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