BETWEEN THE STREETLAMPS AND THE STARS: A STUDY OF JOHN BARTH'S FICTION.

摘要

From the short, relatively realistic novels The Floating Opera and The End of the Road, through the constellated narratives of Chimera, Barth expresses with more and more urgency, with more and more optimism and vitality, man's quenchless desire to be more than himself, to be a little less finite in the infinite universe.