L' opera galleggiante

As there are existential novels there should be anti-existential novels and The Floating Opera is one of a kind… It’s a place where my acquaintance with John Barth has begun and ever since my mind was conquered by him for good… Harrison – a fine, muscular, sun-bronzed, gentle-eyed, patrician-nosed, s Leggi tutto

Whether to Exit if Not Entranced? That is the Question Time is a river. And all the world's a stage...in this case, on a steamboat, a showboat, no less, plying up and down the river. Life itself is an entertainment, a comedy, a circus, a play, an opera performed on this floating stage, hence a floati Leggi tutto

اومبرتو اکو داستان کوتاهی دارد در باره ی مردی که در دوره ی دانشجویی چند سال در یک تاًتر کار می کرده. او مجبور بوده پیش از بسته شدن درِ خوابگاه خود را به آنجا برساند، بنابر این نتوانسته بیست دقیقه ی آخر هیچ کدام از نمایش هایی که آن سالها مجانی تماشا کرده را ببیند. او در سنین بازنشستگی اتفاقاً با پیرم Leggi tutto

Todd Andrews, an interesting - and interested - man, decides on one morning in 1937 to commit suicide. (An aside - I've always felt that saying "to commit suicide" captures the reality of that act far better than "to take one's life" or "to kill oneself". Others may disagree.) The reader of The Float Leggi tutto

تاد اندروز وکیل مجربیه که مادرش رو وقتی بچه بوده از دست داده و پدرش هم وکیلی بوده که بعد از ورشکستگی و از دست دادن همه سرمایه در سهام خودش رو حلق آویز کرده و چیزی جز بدهی برای وارثش به ارث نگذاشته . خود تاد هم دچار مشکل پروستات و قلبه به طوریکه هر لحظه ممکنه قلبش از کار بایسته، طوری که سال هاست منزل Leggi tutto

This book was written in 1955 when the author was only 24 years old. It has a air of mystery in it because the edition I got says that it contains the complete text of the novel, including the passages deleted in the previous editions and the original and correct ending to the story which was chang

Some books give answers, others cause questions. John Barth’s novel, THE FLOATING OPERA, does both. Told in the first person, with times of direct conversation with the reader, this piece of meta-fiction is pure enjoyment. The novel tells of the morning when Todd Andrews awakens and has decided that Leggi tutto

Senryu Review: A comic Camus: Barth Chesapeakeaboos from the unknown to known.