When John Barth\'s Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head.
Dalkey Archive will reissue a number of Barth\'s novels over the next few years, preserving his work for generations to come..
Its occasion helps readers assess a remarkable lifetime\'s work and represents an important chapter in the history of American literature.
This collection of Barth\'s short fiction is a landmark event, bringing all of his previous collections together in one volume for the first time.
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.
When John Barth\'s Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head
