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Title	:	The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
Author	:	John Barth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 442 pages
Published	:	March 11th 1997 by Anchor Books (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. American. Novels

The Floating Opera and The End of the Road Paperback | Pages: 442 pages

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The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth's first two novels.  Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives.  Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on the emotions.  Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama.

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Original Title:	The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
ISBN:	0385240899 (ISBN13: 9780385240895)
Edition Language:	English

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This pertains only to the first novel in the book, "The Floating Opera." (The other I haven't read, yet.) Though the speaker professes that his aim in writing the book is to chronologically tell the events of one day when he "changed his mind," he actually often jumps around in time to other significant days in his life to attempt to raise or explain a specific idea or event. This is an interesting book and essentially post-modernist (concerned as it is with narrative, manipulation of form and

According to my Netflix account, the film of "The End of the the Road" will finally (and unfortunately) be released on dvd in September of this year. John Barth has notoriously endorsed the view of critic John Simon whereby it is said that (view spoiler)["The principal difference between the novel and the film is that the novel concludes with a harrowing abortion, whereas the film is an abortion from start to finish." (hide spoiler)] "Fairly said, alas," quoth John B. Upon initial release the

Reading John Barth's "The Floating Opera and The End of the Road" is as much fun that you can have while wearing pants, though you could read the book naked just make sure nobody is looking in on you through the window or if your going to read nude close the curtains.I should write a seriuos review but with the Hostel Amazon Takeover why put forth the effort, I mean have you read some of the reviews on Amazon, the standards are way down. Read or Don't Read this book but don't call yourself a

Winner of the National Book Award for The Floating Opera, Barth's companion piece, The End of the Road, has the same triangular love affair that the participants try to make workable. The action in both frequently turns out to be quite different than one would expect, the most notable scene being the narrator's initiation into nighttime frontline warfare when an 18 year-old. Completely inexperienced and cut off from contact with anyone with artillery shells whisling overhead, he was terrified

My first experience with John Barth was with his collection of short stories "Lost in the Fun House." I was magnified by his finesse with language and, although I didn't feel that all of those stories were successes (and what writer's ever are?), he left me spellbound as to the potential of future fiction. Having come across him through one of my favorite authors David Foster Wallace and his story "Westward the Course of Empire Takes it's Way," which was a response to Barth's short story from

I first heard about this book in one of my undergrad philosophy classes. I always thought of it as a philosophical treatise and felt a little intimidated by it. As I was looking back on the books I read in 2010, I realized I had read a lot of pulpy fiction and was feeling like I should add something with a little more mental nutrition to my night stand. With this goal in mind, I decided to go to the Floating Opera. While I feel like I did get the intellectual stimulation I felt I needed, I was

I read these two books in college and had the opportunity to meet John Barth at a book signing in the mid-eighties. He looked like a good author should: blazing eyes, etc. I told him I loved the two books so much. He said, "I wrote those when I was just about your age. It would be interesting to see if you liked them so much in twenty years." Then I told him I was going to read The Sot Weed Factor next. He said, "Don't waste your time on more of my books--there are too many good ones out there