The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
1991 novel by John Barth
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor is a novel by American writer John Barth, published in 1991. It is a postmodern metafictional story of a man who jumps overboard from a modern replica of a medieval Arab ship and is rescued by sailors from the world of Sinbad the Sailor. Eventually he makes his way to "Baghdad, the City of Peace",[1] and finds himself in the stories of Sindbad and Scheherazade.[2] The novel makes use of a challenging double-stranded narrative and a rich prose style.[3]
References
- ^ Korda 1991.
- ^ Slethaug 1993, p. 136.
- ^ Lesher 2000, p. 68.
Works cited
- Lesher, Linda Parent (2000). The Best Novels of the Nineties: A Reader's Guide. McFarland. ISBN 9780786407422.
- Korda, Michael (February 4, 1991). "All Wet". New York Magazine. p. 49.
- Slethaug, Gordon (1993). ""Neither one nor quite two": Barth's Lost in the Funhouse". The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-1841-4. Retrieved 2012-05-12.
Further reading
- Clavier, Berndt (2007). "Romance Realism, Montage: Textualites of The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor". John Barth And Postmodernism: Spatiality, Travel, Montage. Peter Lang. pp. 229–244. ISBN 978-0-8204-6385-8. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
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John Barth
- The Floating Opera (1956)
- The End of the Road (1958)
- The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
- Giles Goat-Boy (1966)
- Lost in the Funhouse (1968)
- Chimera (1972)
- LETTERS (1979)
- Sabbatical (1982)
- The Tidewater Tales (1987)
- The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991)
- Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera (1994)
- On with the Story (1996)
- Coming Soon!!! (2001)
- The Book of Ten Nights and a Night (2004)
- Where Three Roads Meet (2005)
- The Development (2008)
- Every Third Thought (2011)
- "The Literature of Exhaustion" (1967)
- The Friday Book (1984)
- Further Fridays (1995)
- Final Fridays (2012)
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