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The literature of exhaustion, and the impoverishment of the imagination
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The literature of exhaustion, and the impoverishment of the imagination

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Naomi K
Aug 14, 2013
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A view of every town and city in America.

A view of every town and city in America.

The thing that struck me about John Barth's collection Lost In The Funhouse was that it was as much a literary essay as a collection of stories. Its theme was that our literature was in an age of exhaustion: there's a sense that all the salient point have been raised; the only thing left is to pick everything ap…

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