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The Floating Opera and The End of the Road

John Barth

Paperback | Pages: 442 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 1960 Users | 117 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
ISBN:	0385240899 (ISBN13: 9780385240895)
Edition Language:	English

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The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth's first two novels.  Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives.  Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on the emotions.  Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama.

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Title	:	The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
Author	:	John Barth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 442 pages
Published	:	March 11th 1997 by Anchor Books (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. American. Novels

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Ratings: 4.03 From 1960 Users | 117 Reviews

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One-minute review: The Floating Opera goooood! The End of the Road baaaaaaad!And yet, despite the disappointment of the second book, I still want to throw myself immediately into Giles Goat-Boy, which should tell you the power of John Barth.P.S. The Sot-Weed Factor also good.



The Floating Opera and The End of The Road are John Barth's first two novels repackaged in one volume. Both novels are about a love triangle and the contemplation of suicide. The Floating Opera is set in the early 1930s and is a novel-length explanation of why the narrator decided to kill himself one day in 1937 and the events that changed his mind. The End of the Road is contemporary to the time it was written (1954) and also considers the question of suicide. While The Floating Opera kept my

I can't decide if these should be rated/reviewed together or separately. But since I read the books in sucession and they were together in one volume, and clearly linked by subject, I'll rate them together. One is the study of potential suicide in minute forms; the other approaches guilt and irreverence using common neurosis. Both should be about love affairs but both are about much more, so much that the affair shrinks under the weight of everything else...and somehow, they aren't about love at

I read this book every year and it never disappoints. I always learn something new.

3.5 stars. I only read The Floating Opera but it was solid. Nice weavings of philosophy+story but also could not really escape that 1st novel amateurishness of it, esp. since it came out so long ago

I read and reviewed these two books separately:The Floating Opera:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...The End of the Road:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...