Giles Goat-Boy, Barth's greatest commercial success, is a novel concerned with the question of innocence and its loss. This narrative retains vestiges of the existential influence in Barth's earlier works. His major concern, however, is with the ultimately despairing implications of the "Tragic View," particularly the notion.....
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