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Barth, John Simmons

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Barth, John Simmons (1930– )

US novelist and short-story writer. He was influential in the ‘academic’ experimental movement of the 1960s. His works, typically encyclopedic in scale, are usually interwoven fictions based on language games, his principal concerns being the nature of narrative and the relationship of language to reality. His novels include The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), Giles Goat-Boy (1966), Chimera (1972), which won the National Book Award, Letters (1979), Sabbatical: A Romance (1982), The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991), and Coming Soon!!! (2001).

He also wrote Lost in the Funhouse (1968), a collection of short stories whose title refers to the ironic relation of the author to his own creations.



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