Giles Goat-Boy

Name: Giles Goat-Boy
Author: John Barth

by John Barth

Metafictional epic rewriting the Oedipus myth as university allegory

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John Barth

John Barth was the central figure of American postmodern fiction, whose The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy deployed irony, parody, and self-conscious narrative to reinvent the novel. Lost in the Funhouse defined metafiction for a generation.

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The Sot-Weed FactorPicaresque colonial adventure parodying eighteenth-century literary conventions and history
Lost in the FunhousePostmodern story cycle exploring narrative structure and text within text
ChimeraNovella pair retelling Perseus and Bellerophon myths in contemporary fragmented form
LETTERSEpistolary novel spanning four centuries of American literary and historical figures