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Giles Goat Boy Ambiguities and Barth’s Ambitious Novel
Eliot Fremont-Smith reviews John Barth’s Giles Goat-Boy or the Revised New Syllabus, a massive 710 page epic. The piece ponders whether Barth’s work is genius or tedious while noting its humor, pedantry, and experimental front matter. The review highlights the novel’s birth of George Giles, campus satire, and the book’s demanding see-through paper. It ends suggesting readers may choose to enjoy despite doubts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliot Fremont-Smith
New York Times News Service
Giles
John Barth
Earth
Barth
State University of New York At Buffalo
Maryland
George Giles
New Tammany College
West
Don Quixote
Candide
Leopold Bloom