BARTH LATER
John Barth’s literary modus operandi was to challenge the established norms, summarising his approach in his essay The Literature of Exhaustion. His most influential works were The Sot-Weed Factor, which lampooned historical fiction on a colonial Maryland tobacco farm, and Giles Goat-Boy, featuring a part-caprine protagonist and condensing the Cold War into a college campus. He was 93 and picked by My Wife Left Me.
John Barth
27 May 1930 – 2 April 2024, aged 93
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