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>> No.23204982 [View]
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What's the verdict on John Barth's novels? Compared to other pomo authors like Pynchon or Delillo, nobody seems to care about him

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>93 and still going strong

>> No.14011181 [View]
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i never see anybody posting about Barth, but i read the floating opera and the end of the road and they are excellent. definitely up there with gaddis and pynchon. anyone here read his stuff? thoughts?

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What the fuck was his problem?

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Other than his first 2 books - The End of the Road & The Floating Opera which i read and liked

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You're asking me who's next? I'll tell you whose next!

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>>11088300
Sorry Johnny.

>> No.10713387 [View]
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This guy wrote Borges's novels.

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>>10406143
>M&D was this unbelievable stunt-writing of a 19th century narrative voice channeled through a 1960s pomo hippy-cum-1990s novelist. Who else could have done it?

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