The End of the Road (American Literature) - Tapa blanda

"Much of "The End of the Road" has an unnerving power, due primarily to the spectacle of intellectual lunacy . . . Barth is a graft of Thorne Smith on Dostoevsky." David Kerner, "The Chicago Review""

"Mr. Barth breathes life into his prose in a wholly original way. He baits us on laughter and lands us on disaster . . . We may be seeing here the emergence of a new genre the serious farce." The Massachusetts Review"

"That rarity of U.S. letters a true novel of ideas." TIME"

"Much of The End of the Road has an unnerving power, due primarily to the spectacle of intellectual lunacy . . . Barth is a graft of Thorne Smith on Dostoevsky." David Kerner, The Chicago Review"

As young Jake Horner’s mind became an increasingly paralyzing cobweb of dark thoughts, he turned for help to an extraordinary doctor—part saint, part evil-genius, a weird combination of faith healer, magician, and devil. And in so doing Jake found himself following a drastic prescription that was to draw him into a strange, compulsive relationship.

It is around the startling results of Jake Horner’s “cure” and its amazing mastermind—a doctor almost surely designed to become one of the most remarkable characters in modern fiction—that this brilliant, imaginative novel hinges. John Barth is a young writer of unusual talent whose uncanny insight into the dark mazes of the human mind has given The End of the Road a haunting and troubling reality.