Lost in the funhouse: fiction for print, tape, live voice
by John Barth
Translation : May Tančik , Nada Šoljan
Published by: Informatorov biro sustav 6/2006.
236 pages, Paperback
This is the first complete Croatian translation of John Barth's collection " Lost in the Funhouse "
But this the the only translation of John Barth's works in Croatia.
So who is John Bart ? For Croatia it is unknown American author only ,
and maybe, students of American literature heard of him.
"Izgubljen u Lunaparku" written in 1968 is a short story collection that are extremely self-conscious and self-reflexive and are considered to exemplify metafiction.
The book opens with "Frame-Tale"—a "story" ....
that requires preschool craftsmanship ....
to cut out the Möbius strip. A typical metafictional cry to escape .....
exhausted media of written literature ...
which Barth discusses in his essay ...
The Literature of Exhaustion .....
that comes with the book as a booklet in which he describes the problems of literary postmodernism.
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