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On with the Story: Stories

av John Barth

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1922140,207 (3.54)1
Using the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of tale-telling by a more or less desperate loving couple vacationing at their "last resort." As Scheherazade spun out her bedtime stories to save her life, the narrator of On with the Story spins out his to postpone The End, and to explore en route - wittily, mournfully, tenderly - love in modern life and postmodern literature. As the narrative cycles through the lifescapes of his subjects' stories, Barth affords a view both panoramic and microscopic of our own landscape. With eye and pen both sharp and beautiful he depicts love ranging from the obsessively puppy through the sophisticatedly fatigued, the delusionally murderous, even the quantum-physical, to the superbly fulfilled.… (mer)
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All the familiar Barth tropes are there: boating; scholarship; storytelling; passionate and devout love; and of course strange and wonderful narrative devices. The stories are by turns whimsical, exciting, esoteric, poignant and morbid...

Read the rest of my review of On With the Story on my blog, The Nerd is the Word.

http://nerdword.blogspot.com/2006/09/33-on-with-story.html ( )
  Totalnerd | Jun 13, 2007 |
It's difficult to imagine reading [these stories] as stand-alone entities, however, as they are all so heavily informed by the frame narrative: a wife and husband on a "last resort" vacation, with some horrific personal tragedy looming on the horizon, told strictly through dialogue with no author's voice.

Read the rest of my review of On With the Story on my blog, The Nerd is the Word.

http://nerdword.blogspot.com/2006/09/33-on-with-story.html ( )
  Totalnerd | Jun 4, 2007 |
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Using the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of tale-telling by a more or less desperate loving couple vacationing at their "last resort." As Scheherazade spun out her bedtime stories to save her life, the narrator of On with the Story spins out his to postpone The End, and to explore en route - wittily, mournfully, tenderly - love in modern life and postmodern literature. As the narrative cycles through the lifescapes of his subjects' stories, Barth affords a view both panoramic and microscopic of our own landscape. With eye and pen both sharp and beautiful he depicts love ranging from the obsessively puppy through the sophisticatedly fatigued, the delusionally murderous, even the quantum-physical, to the superbly fulfilled.

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