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Lost in the Funhouse

Lost in the Funhouse Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice

Paperback (01 Mar 1988)

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Publisher's Synopsis

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST  John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence.

"[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." -The New York Times

From its opening story, "Frame-Tale"--printed sideways and designed to be cut out by the reader and twisted into a never-ending Mobius strip--to the much-anthologized "Life-Story," whose details are left to the reader to "fill in the blank," Barth's acclaimed collection challenges our ideas of what fiction can do. Highlights include the Homerian story-wthin-a-story-within-a-story (times seven) of "Menalaiad,' and "Night-Sea Journey," a first-person account of a confused human sperm on its way to fertilize an egg. All of the characters in Lost in the Funhouse are searching, in one way or another, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence. Together, their stories form a kaleidescope of exuberant metafictional inventiveness.

Book information

ISBN: 9780385240871
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Anchor Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 186g
Height: 210mm
Width: 138mm
Spine width: 17mm