Metafictions of John Barth  (Hardcover, M. Kannan)

John Barth is a celebrated twentieth century American metafictionalist. He is also an undeniable postmodernist of America. He is rightly termed as absurdist, black humorist, and fabulator. His literary works each of which turned out to be a magnum opus is structurally superb, technically excellent and strong and contextually relevant and significant. John Barth along with his contemporary writers Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr, heralded a new literary movement in America called postmodernism. His oeuvre lends themselves to a postmodernist critical analysis.