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John Barth. John Barth (1995) John Simmons Barth (* 27. Mai 1930 in Cambridge, Maryland; † 2. April 2024 in Bonita Springs, Florida [1]) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er war bekannt für den postmodernen Einsatz metafiktionaler Elemente.
John Simmons Barth (/ b ɑːr θ /; May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold ...
2. Apr. 2024 · April 2, 2024. John Barth, who, believing that the old literary conventions were exhausted, extended the limits of storytelling with imaginative and intricately woven novels like “The Sot-Weed ...
23. Mai 2024 · John Barth (born May 27, 1930, Cambridge, Maryland, U.S.—died April 2, 2024, Bonita Springs, Florida) was an American writer best known for novels that combine philosophical depth and complexity with biting satire and boisterous, frequently bawdy humor. Much of Barth’s writing was concerned with the seeming impossibility of choosing the right action in a world that has no absolute values.
2. Apr. 2024 · April 2, 2024. Nobody likes the comic who explains his own material, but the writer John Barth, who died on Tuesday, had a way of making explanations — of gags, of stories, of the whole creative ...
4. Apr. 2024 · Nun ist der Schriftsteller John Barth im Alter von 93 Jahren gestorben. Die Literaturgeschichte ist manchmal ungerecht. Was man heute „Metafiktion“ nennt, verdankt sich zu einem erheblichen ...
3. Apr. 2024 · John Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction, died Tuesday.
3. Apr. 2024 · He was 93. Johns Hopkins University, where Barth was an emeritus professor of English and creative writing, confirmed his death in a statement. Along with William Gass, Stanley Elkin and other peers, Barth was part of a wave of writers in the 1960s who challenged standards of language and plot. The author of 20 books including “Giles Goat-Boy ...
3. Apr. 2024 · John Barth, a novelist who crafted labyrinthine, fantastical tales that were at once bawdy and philosophical, placing him on the cutting edge of the postmodern literary movement, died April 2.
11. Apr. 2024 · John Barth, who has died aged 93, was the American author whose books – Giles Goat-Boy, for example, or The Sot-Weed Factor – earned him a particular place in the world of offbeat writing; he ...
25. Feb. 2016 · John Barth (b. 1930) grew up in Cambridge, Maryland, and has spent most of his life around the Chesapeake Bay. He entered Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1947 and graduated with BA and MA degrees in creative writing in 1951 and 1953, respectively. Throughout his career as a novelist, Barth has taught creative writing at various ...
6. Apr. 2024 · John Simmons Barth was born in Cambridge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1930, into what he described as a “fairly unsophisticated family”. His native region, which he said retained a “very ...
13. Sept. 1970 · Der amerikanische Schriftsteller John Barth, 40, hat bisher vier Romane veröffentlicht; »Der Tabakhändler« ("The Sot-Weed Factor"). 1960 erstgedruckt, Ist der erste, der in deutscher ...
Der Tabakhändler, englischer Originaltitel The Sot-Weed Factor, ist ein erstmals 1960 veröffentlichter Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers John Barth (1930–2024). 1967 erschien eine vom Autor revidierte und um 50 Seiten gekürzte Neufassung dieses Romans [1], der als eines der Hauptwerke der amerikanischen Postmoderne gilt. [2]
John Barth lässt in seinem Debüt-Roman von 1957 mit vielen Rückblenden eine Lebensgeschichte entstehen, die dem Leser nach und nach die Gründe offenbart. Das Buch liest sich leicht und flüssig, besticht durch viel Witz, ohne an Niveau zu verlieren.
John Barth, Writer Who Pushed Storytelling’s Limits, Dies at 93. His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s ...
John Barth. John Barth gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Erzähler der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Literatur. Er wurde 1930 in Cambridge/Maryland geboren und war nach dem Abschluss seines Studiums lange Jahre Dozent für Literatur an der Johns Hopkins Universität in Baltimore. Für sein umfangreiches Werk wurde er mit zahlreichen ...
3. Apr. 2024 · Kaleidoscopic novelist John Barth has died at 93. It’s hard not to think about form when writing—to say nothing of starting —an obituary for John Barth. The conventions of the obituary are there to be picked up: appraise the work succinctly (see “kaleidoscopic” above), trace the biography (did you know he studied jazz?), and end with ...
John Barth' Roman "Tage ohne Wetter", im Original bereits 1958 unter dem Titel "The End of the Road" erschienen, erinnert Rezensent Thomas Wild stark an Max Frischs "Stiller". Wie bei Frisch steht nach Auskunft Wilds auch bei Barth ein Ich-Erzähler im Mittelpunkt, der permanent die Grundlagen seines eigenen Lebens reflektiert, die Wahrnehmung seiner Mitmenschen beobachtet, die Welt als ...
3 Bücher. John Barth: Der Tabakhändler. Roman. Liebeskind Verlagsbuchhandlung, München 2003. ISBN 9783935890175, Gebunden, 966 Seiten, 32.00 EUR. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Susanna Rademacher. England, gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts: Ebenezer Cooke, jungfräulicher Poet und Taugenichts, wird von seinem Vater ins ferne Amerika geschickt, um ...
