In Barth's latest collection, one of his stand-ins, C.P. Mason, a writer/teacher who is trying ... Christian exegesis, and... The work of John Barth, whose novels defined the postmodern ’60s ...

An American writer best known for novels ... frequently bawdy humour. Much of Barth’s writing is concerned with the seeming impossibility of choosing the right action in a world that has no absolute ...

John Barth, a novelist who crafted labyrinthine ... as “The Ocean of the Rivers of Story,” a multivolume work originally ...