Lost in the Funhouse

Chapter to chapter, the reader reads a brief story in a book that they find that ends abruptly.

This sort of self-reflexive structure has appeared in a few other books too, like Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth, which often calls attention to its own storytelling and the writing of the book itself.

In part two of Don Quixote by Cervantes, the characters in the story have read part one.

Part one exists as a book in the story itself.

The next one, another of my 10 titans and somebody I absolutely love, the master, the uber metafictionist, John Barth.

And in particular, I'm going to go with Lost in the Funhouse.

John Barth, again, has a variety of books of short stories and they're all good.

Lost in the Funhouse, which is his first published book of short stories, is also my favorite.

And Where Prick Songs and Descants is just about just wowing you with the breadth of what Coover is able to accomplish.

Lost in the Funhouse is a little while.

There's a lot of variety of what's in here.

It's a little more about John Barth saying, I'm going to take the basic idea of metafiction and I am going to explore it thoroughly and completely.