The formal ingenuity in The Floating Opera and its mixture of bawdiness, low comedy, and intellectual seriousness are typical of Barth's novels. Although less extravagant than his subsequent fiction, and less involved technically than Lost in the Funhouse (1968), The Floating Opera is essential to an understanding of Barth's development, and it is perhaps the most.....
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