Chimera (John Barth novel)

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		Born in 1930 in Cambridge, Md., Barth studied at Johns Hopkins both as an undergrad and as a graduate student.
		As a teacher for many years, Barth directly oversaw the earliest efforts of many subsequent published novelists including Curtis White, whose new novel Requiem (Dalkey Archive) is one of the most enlightened works of fiction to come along in ages and quite likely the best novel of the year.
		details the simultaneously ugly and hilarious rivalry that grows between an aging master of the written word (called Writer Emeritus, an obvious stand-in for Barth) and a young apprentice (Johns "Hop" Hopkins Johnson) more interested in e-fiction.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/110801/ae.books.soon.shtml

	CONTEXT: Charles Harris Reading John Barth
		As Barth writes in Chimera, "the truth of fiction is that Fact is fantasy; the made-up story is a model of the world." In works such as Sabbatical and On With the Story, reflexiveness is absorbed into the work's narrative flow.
		I read John Barth because he's terrific--and because his work provides the best index I know to the temper of our time.
		On With the Story, Barth's most recent book to date, is such a tale, a rich meditation on change and loss that unfolds like a novel through twelve interrelated short fictions.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no5/harris.html

	Fluid Imagination: Notes on John Barth's Chimera
		To the point, however, is Barth's style (in Chimera anyway).
		Barth (and, by extension, postmodernists) exposes the weaknesses of art by revealing its very existence as art.
		Barth, through one his female characters, explains - no passives!
	fluidimagination.typepad.com /fluid_imagination/2004/08/notes_on_john_b.html

	JS Online: Barth's wit just keeps rolling on
		John Barth seems to have been hibernating for five or so years, cocooned within his stellar literary record, which includes two National Book Award nominations and an award in 1972 for "Chimera." But the bear is coming out of the cave.
		Barth's full explanation of how he came to write this, his first novel in about 10 years, is too long to detail.
		For example, the fictional writer in the novel reprises his first novel about Edna Ferber's literary connections to "Show Boat." In real life, didn't Barth's first novel also deal with the same topic?
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/geeta/mar01/bk.col25032301.asp (566 words)

	John Barth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland and briefly studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before attending Johns Hopkins University, receiving a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952 (for which he wrote a thesis novel, The Shirt of Nessus).
		John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.
		Barth began his career with The Floating Opera and The End of the Road, two short novels that dealt wittily with controversial topics, suicide and abortion respectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Barth (547 words)

	CONTEXT: Charles Harris Reading John Barth
		I read John Barth because he's terrific--and because his work provides the best index I know to the temper of our time.
		As Barth writes in Chimera, "the truth of fiction is that Fact is fantasy; the made-up story is a model of the world." In works such as Sabbatical and On With the Story, reflexiveness is absorbed into the work's narrative flow.
		Since the writing process forms a central element in the novel's plot, references to that process, which in another context would constitute foregrounding, become wholly appropriate to the work's "realistic" base.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no5/harris.html (1565 words)

	ipedia.com: Chimera Article
		A 1972 novel by John Barth; see Chimera (novel)
		Chimera can mean the following: A creature in the Greek Mythology ; see Chimera A heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio ; see Chimaira Single animal organisms with genetically distinct cells from two...
		Chimera is the older name of a web browser, now called Camino
	www.ipedia.com /chimera.html (207 words)

	ipedia.com: John Barth Article
		John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland and briefly studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before attending Johns Hopkins University, receiving a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952 (for which he wrote a thesis novel, The Shirt of Nessus).
		Some of the books he has written include The Floating Opera (1957), The End of the Road (1958), The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), Giles Goat-Boy (1966), Lost in the Funhouse (1968), Chimera (1972), Letters (1979), and (1982).
	www.ipedia.com /john_barth.html (194 words)

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