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Title	:	Chimera
Author	:	John Barth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 308 pages
Published	:	November 20th 2001 by Mariner Books (first published 1972)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Literature. Short Stories. American. Novels

Chimera

John Barth

Paperback | Pages: 308 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 1974 Users | 121 Reviews

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By the winner of the National Book Award and bestselling author of "The Tidewater Tales," three of the great myths of all time revisited by a modern master.
Dunyazade, Scheherazade's kid sister, holds the destiny of herself and the prince who holds her captive.
Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, finds himself at forty battling for simple self-respect like any common mortal.
Bellerophon, once a hero for taming the winged horse Pegasus, must wrestle with a contentment that only leaves him wretched.

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Original Title:	Chimera
ISBN:	0618131701 (ISBN13: 9780618131709)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (Split award) (1973)

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Ratings: 3.73 From 1974 Users | 121 Reviews

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Only got to pg 113... I like storytelling and myth, but Barth's style and attention to sex didn't work for me.

This is a stupid book.John Barth has admirable goals (rejuvenating the novel) and an precise, musical command of language. But his one fatal flaw is his inability to get outside his own head. He aims for mythic significance, but the cosmic scope of his stories keeps getting mixed together with the very un-cosmic matter of John Barth, 20th century American writer, trying to think of words to put on the page. This manifests itself most obviously in two ways: his metafictional bent (he likes to

Extremely good and funny book

Chimera is my first introduction to John Barth. It consists of three interrelated novellas, the first based on 1001 Arabian Nights and the other two based on Greek mythology. Chimera was also, I believe, my first introduction to meta fiction, where part of the story being told is the creation of the story. There is a lot going on here, a lot to get your head around, and I will be the first to admit I only comprehended some of it. Let's start with the basics, though. When John Barth is just

'We need a miracle, Doony...and the only genies I've ever met were in stories, not in Moorman's rings and Jew's Lamps. It's in words that the magic is- Abracadabra, Open Sesame, and the rest- but the magic words in one story aren't magical in the next. The real magic is to understand which words work, and when, and for what. The trick is to learn the trick.'Too clever by half. I wonder if it is too bawdy to be post-modern, whatever that means. Writing about writing isn't necessarily meta-; Then

This was a hoot - three linked novellas each drawn from much older traditions, one from The Arabian Nights and two from Greek mythology (the careers of Perseus and Bellerophon, respectively). There's too much deconstructionist wankery in here for me, personally; I'm not all that interested in theories of narrative, texts that are aware of themselves, et cetera, and the author's occasional appearances in his own story come off as indulgent, but then again... a chimera is after all a conjunction

Mythology is the propaganda of the winners, (277) says Anteia, sister-in-law to mythic hero Bellerophone who kills the monster Chimera. And Perseus, heroic slayer of Medusa, muses: No mans a mythic hero to his wife. (87)In this mash-up of myth, John Barth applies shape-shifting magic to the concept of story-telling in general and the Heroic Journey in particular. It takes lots of background knowledge to enjoy the book not JUST Scheherazade and Greek myth and Joseph Campbell/Robert McKee but