Lost in the Funhouse

Name: Lost in the Funhouse
Author: John Barth

by John Barth

Postmodern story cycle exploring narrative structure and text within text

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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.

More by John Barth

The Sot-Weed FactorPicaresque colonial adventure parodying eighteenth-century literary conventions and history
Giles Goat-BoyMetafictional epic rewriting the Oedipus myth as university allegory
ChimeraNovella pair retelling Perseus and Bellerophon myths in contemporary fragmented form
LETTERSEpistolary novel spanning four centuries of American literary and historical figures