The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

1991 novel by John Barth
First edition

The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor is a novel by American writer John Barth, published in 1991. It is a postmodern metafictional story of a man who jumps overboard from a modern replica of a medieval Arab ship and is rescued by sailors from the world of Sinbad the Sailor. Eventually he makes his way to "Baghdad, the City of Peace",[1] and finds himself in the stories of Sindbad and Scheherazade.[2] The novel makes use of a challenging double-stranded narrative and a rich prose style.[3]

References

  1. ^ Korda 1991.
  2. ^ Slethaug 1993, p. 136.
  3. ^ Lesher 2000, p. 68.

Works cited

  • Lesher, Linda Parent (2000). The Best Novels of the Nineties: A Reader's Guide. McFarland. ISBN 9780786407422.
  • Korda, Michael (February 4, 1991). "All Wet". New York Magazine. p. 49.
  • Slethaug, Gordon (1993). ""Neither one nor quite two": Barth's Lost in the Funhouse". The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-1841-4. Retrieved 2012-05-12.

Further reading

  • Clavier, Berndt (2007). "Romance Realism, Montage: Textualites of The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor". John Barth And Postmodernism: Spatiality, Travel, Montage. Peter Lang. pp. 229–244. ISBN 978-0-8204-6385-8. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
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John Barth
Fiction
  • The Floating Opera (1956)
  • The End of the Road (1958)
  • The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
  • Giles Goat-Boy (1966)
  • Lost in the Funhouse (1968)
  • Chimera (1972)
  • LETTERS (1979)
  • Sabbatical (1982)
  • The Tidewater Tales (1987)
  • The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991)
  • Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera (1994)
  • On with the Story (1996)
  • Coming Soon!!! (2001)
  • The Book of Ten Nights and a Night (2004)
  • Where Three Roads Meet (2005)
  • The Development (2008)
  • Every Third Thought (2011)
Non-fiction
Other
End of the Road


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