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A masterpiece is recognizable from the first lines. Jai was immediately thrilled with his narrative style and ironically casual and caustic turn of the century flavor.
"No concept is no longer elusive as the dune human action pattern, whatever it is. "From this, Barth fired this novel, published in 1956, in which it will outline the concept of literature of exhaustion, which takes inspiration from Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, considered a pillar of Western literature although little known in France. This exhaustion of narrative genres in the gap and digression, Barth will theorize to become a common reference for generations of writers, Borges Joyce, jusquaux postmodernists who all tried, in the past two decades, renovate a worn writing by centuries of thematic and formal operations.
Floating opera title, it is these showboats who commuted in Maryland estuaries giving city to city theatrical performances. Lembarcation is a metaphor for human existence, elusive, which is engaged in snatches. Indeed the boat in question "is not at anchor, but would follow the river tidal movement and spectators would sit all along the two banks. They could capture the vicissitudes of the plot in progress, while the boat would rise to their height, and then should wait for the tide change to collect other snatches, admitting they would have remained there. "Exactly image of life, which one grasps the meaning in fragments.
Todd Andrews is a lawyer who pushes the interests of clarity and make endless dexhaustivité up any business, if only to seek to be understood in the investigation that he performs on himself, or of never completed the construction of a sailboat. The meticulous narration of the major events of his life- the suicide of his father, his career avocado, her virginity, her threesome with the wife of his best friend, his experience in the trenches of labsurde 14-18-all this lost in digressions and turnovers, ségarant in the analysis of causes and effects to arrive at the conclusion that "everything has a meaning and nothing deep nest important," that all behavior is just one mask that adapts to market conditions, which lamène finally live his life as his own spectator, consider dy end up with the same detachment, or reconsider sen as casually since "nothing has intrinsic value" and "that it nexiste no reason to live or suicide" ..