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He has an older brother, bill, and a twin sister jill. His initial difficulty is that his tutor teaches him to make a game of learning so that later he can find no reason to choose between philosophies, careers or simple actions during the thirty years to follow. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. The project gutenberg ebook of the sotweed factor, by.
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John barth s the sot weed factor as literature of exhaustion. Reading the opening words was like touching a live wire. A factor is a middleman who buys something to resell it. A sot weed factor, was a tobacco agent or supercargo. This book is the 556th greatest fiction book of all time as determined by. The sot weed factor is a 1960 novel by john barth that satirizes picaresque novels such as tristram shandy and tom jones. All this came to mind recently when i picked up a novel id been meaning to read for many years, john barths the sotweed factor. This is a mock history of the real life poet ebenezer cooke, who wrote the hudibrastic poem the sot weed factor. As barth is wont to do, the sot weed factor is not only the title of this book, but it is also the title of a poem in the book which is penned by the lead character, who is himself a sot weed factor sot weed being a slang term for tobacco, and a factor being an agent. The sotweed factor by john barth and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
A parody of the historical novel, it is based on and takes its title from a satirical poem published in 1708 by ebenezer cooke, who is the protagonist of barths work. He has been fictionalized by john barth as the comically innocent protagonist of the sotweed factor, a novel in which a series of fantastic misadventures leads cooke to write his poem. In the last years of the seventeenth century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the london coffeehouses one rangy, gangling flitch. A study of thomas pynchons v john barth s the sot weed factor. Read the sot weed factor by john barth available from rakuten kobo. Ebenezer cooke, an innocent like candide, was born in maryland but raised in 17th century england. Considered by critics to be barth s most distinguished masterpiece, the sotweed factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. The sot weed factor ebook by john barth rakuten kobo. You can read this item using any of the following kobo apps and devices.
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