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Lost in the Funhouse (1968) is a short story collection by American author John Barth. The postmodern stories are extremely self-conscious and self-reflexive, and are considered to exemplify metafiction. Though Barth's reputation rests mainly on his long novels, the stories "Night-Sea Journey", "Lost in the Funhouse", "Title" and "Life-Story ...
- John Barth
- 1968
Lost in the Funhouse is full of stories about people writing stories, stories that deconstruct the idea of the story as the linguistic construct, stories that take the forms of labyrinths, stories told from perspectives you wouldn't expect them to be told from, the works. It breaks every Rule of Storytelling you've ever read, and if you hate the formalists and would rather read the old masters ...
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The brown hair on Ambrose’s mother’s forearms gleamed in the sun like. Though right-handed, she took her left arm from the seat back to press the dashboard cigar lighter for Uncle Karl. When the glass bead in its handle glowed red, the lighter was ready for use. The smell of Uncle Karl’s cigar smoke reminded one of.
Lost in the Funhouse. John Barth. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 25, 2014 - Fiction - 224 pages. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence. " [Barth] ran riot over literary rules and ...
- John Barth
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014
- 0804152500, 9780804152501
- Lost in the FunhouseAnchor Literary Library
May 28, 2021 · By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on May 28, 2021. “Lost in the Funhouse” begins with young Ambrose, who was possibly conceived in “Night-Sea Journey,” now an adolescent, traveling to Ocean City, Maryland, to celebrate Independence Day. Accompanying him through his eventual initiation are his parents; his uncle Karl; his older brother, Peter; and ...
Jun 13, 2024 · Introduction. "Lost in the Funhouse" is a short story by American author John Barth. It was originally published in the November 1967 issue of The Atlantic and later included in the author's short ...
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Highlights include the Homerian story-wthin-a-story-within-a-story (times seven) of "Menalaiad,' and "Night-Sea Journey," a first-person account of a confused human sperm on its way to fertilize an egg. All of the characters in Lost in the Funhouse are searching, in one way or another, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence ...
