Giles Goat-Boy

von John Barth

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From the author of National Book Award-nominated Lost in the Funhouse, comes an outrageously farcical adventure that challenges our notions of technology, power, and human nature."[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." —The New York TimesGiles Goat-Boy tells the story of a human boy raised as a goat who comes to believe that he is humanity's prophesied messiah. In an absurdist universe that takes the form of a unversity--divided into an authoritarian East Campus and a more open West Campus--young George Giles rises to assume the title of Grand Tutor, the spiritual leader of the world and heroic defender of his people against the threat of a tyrannical computer system. Hailed as a "fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex" (Time magazine), Giles Goat-Boy has long been one of John Barth's most popular and multi-layered narratives.

• Themen: Belletristik Spekulative Literatur Dystopische und utopische Literatur
• ISBN: 9780385240864
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.08.1987
• Größe: 216 x 141 mm
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group