Question

Discuss john barths philosophy of life as presented in the floating opera

Answer 1

The Floating Opera is a novel by American writer John Barth, first published in 1956 and significantly revised in 1967. Barth's first published work, the existentialist and nihilist story is a first-person account of a day protagonist Todd Andrews contemplated suicide.

The Floating Opera

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First edition

Author

John Barth

Country

United States

Language

English

Publication date

1956

1967 (revised)

Critics and Barth himself often pair The Floating Opera with Barth's next novel, The End of the Road (1958); both were written in 1955, and are available together in a one-volume edition. Both are philosophical novels; The End of the Road continues with the conclusions made about absolute values by the protagonist of The Floating Opera, and takes these ideas "to the end of the road". Barth wrote both novels in a realistic mode, in contrast to Barth's better-known metafictional, fabulist, and postmodern works from the 1960s and later, such as Lost in the Funhouse (1968) and LETTERS (1979).

Answer 2

Floating opera is new and first novel go t published by the American author John berth and this novel chronicles become the best narrator of the rejection of new ideas and also get socially upheld values.

It was make sure that bleak in manuscript and also berth had to change the ending in order to have his work in the same print.