Robert Coover
Robert Coover is a postmodern fabulist whose fiction systematically dismantles mythological and popular narrative forms—baseball, the public burning, Pinocchio—to reveal their ideological machinery. The Public Burning is his most ambitious novel.
Works
- The Origin of the BrunistsSatirical novel depicting apocalyptic millennial cult in Pennsylvania coal country
- The Universal Baseball AssociationNovel reimagining baseball as intricate social and metaphysical system
- The Public BurningCarnivalesque historical novel of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg through surreal prose
- Pricksongs and DescantsStory collection of metafictional and experimental pieces exploring narrative possibilities
- Gerald's PartyChaotic comedy of party mayhem spiraling into murder mystery