Postscripts
Published on 31. January 2023
100 pages
978-1-62897-473-7 (ISBN)
Description
Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay--"??jeux d'esprits," as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth's literary influences while retaining his trademark self-consciousness and willingness to play.
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Person
John Barth is our most celebrated postmodernist. From the appearance in 1956 of The Floating Opera, his first published book, through the essay collection Final Fridays, released in 2012, he has published at least two books in each of the seven decades spanning his writerly life thus far. Thrice nominated for the National Book Award?The Floating Opera, Lost in the Funhouse, and Chimera, which won in 1973?Barth has received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. A native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, he taught for twenty-two years in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He now lives in Florida with his wife Shelly.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Self-Explanatory Haiku and Epigraphical Haiku
- In the Beginning Was the (Spoken) Word
- The Relevance of Irrelevance: Writing American
- You
- Two Bits
- Facts of Life: The Python
- The American Consumer Crouch
- The Sirens' Song
- Chrysaora Quinquecirrha
- Cat Man
- "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates"
- Harley Guy
- Weekly Specials!
- Dermatology
- Only Only : The Wandering Modifier
- Just a Minute
- Dead Ringer
- Thanksgivukah
- Delivery
- 85
- Syzygy
- The Banality of Uniqueness: A Dialogue
- Missy: A Postscript to The 1001 Nights
- Self-Explanatory Waka and Worry-Wart Waka
- Bonus Time
- Inspiration
- Roman à Clef
- Mayday!
- Hyperproprioception
- What's In a Name?
- Library Friends
- Navigation-Stars
- The Lives of Our Stories
- "This Is Not a Story"
- Remembering Bill
- I'll See You In My Dreams
- Some Reflections on Scott Fitzgerald
- Lights Out
- In the Dark
- My Two Pens
- The Destroyer of Delights
- The Dixon Line
- By Barthelme Beguiled
- The Imp of the Perverse: A Tribute to Robert Coover
- Libraries
- "It's All Greek To Me": Answers Without Questions
- Out of the Cradle
- On Having Nothing Further to Say
- P.S.
