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In recognition of Karl Barth's stature as a theologian and public figure in the life of Europe and the West, Swiss publisher Theologischer Verlag Zurich (TVZ) published Conversations, a collection of correspondence, articles, interviews, and other short-form writings by Barth. Collected in three volumes.

In recognition of Karl Barth's stature as a theologian and public figure in the life of Europe and the West, Swiss publisher Theologischer Verlag Zurich (TVZ) published Conversations, a collection of correspondence, articles, interviews, and other short-form writings by Barth. Collected in three volumes.

This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the eighteenth-century picaresque novel-think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy-is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiti...

Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay—"​​jeux d'esprits, ” as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth's literary influences while retaining his trademark self-consciousness and willingness to play.

A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights, of Perseus, slayer of Medusa, and of Bellerophon, rider of Pegasus and slayer of the Chimera.

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Una mattina di giugno del 1937 Todd Andrews - un'avviatissima carriera di avvocato, una sobria vita borghese in una cittadina del Maryland, un improbabile ménage à trois con l'amico Harrison, erede di un impero dei sottaceti, e la graziosissima moglie di lui - si sveglia, si alza dal letto e guardandosi allo specchio scopre che la risposta a ogni suo problema è il suicidio. Vent'anni dopo, ancora vivo, racconta al lettore gli sviluppi di quell...

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China’s rapid pace of economic growth and development is accompanied by needed reforms in its emerging financial markets. The government’s measured approach in developing these markets is creating unusual challenges and opportunities, both domestically and internationally. This book offers one of the most insightful up-to-date looks available at the evolving Chinese financial system. It provides alternative perspectives of the system’s evolut...

John Barth stays true to form in "Every Third Thought, " written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection "The Development." George I. Newett and his wife Amanda Todd lived in the gated community of Heron Bay Estates until its destruction by a fluke tornado. This event, Newett notes, occurred on the 77th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash, a detail that would appear insignificant if it were no...

John Barth è uno dei capostipiti della narrativa postmoderna: le sue opere mescolano con virtuosismo generi letterari e antecedenti illustri che vanno dalle "Mille e una notte" ai romanzi del Settecento e - senza mai rinunciare allo humour e alla pura gioia della narrazione - superano il realismo per diventare talvolta geniali riflessioni sull'atto della scrittura stessa, sono da decenni oggetto di culto per i lettori, e parte integrante del c...

A National Book Award winner offers his most inventive novel to date. Journalist Simon Behler finds himself in the house of Sinbad the Sailor after being washed ashore during a sea-going adventure. Over the course of six evenings, the two take turns recounting their voyages in a brilliantly entertaining weave of stories within stories. "Filled with white nights and golden days . . . lyrical, fresh and sprightly."--Washington Post.

Tell me a story! Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore orders her husband Peter Sagamore -- and so lets loose a flood of tales that floats them both past encounteres with their own lives and loves, entanglements with the CIA and toxic waste, and fantastically inventive brushes with some of the greatest characters of all time, including updated versions of Don Quixote, Odysseus, and Scheherazade.

When John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth's writing was not a response to the realistic fiction that characterized American literature at the time, it beckoned back to the founders of the novel: Cervantes, Rabelais, and Sterne, echoing their playfulness and reflecting the freedom inherent in the writing of fiction. This collection of Barth's short fiction is a landmark event, bringi...