BARTH, John

Through the late 1960s, in his own late thirties, John Barth was testing the extremes of literature. Frame Tale, the opening story in his 1968 collection Lost in the Funhouse, appears in the form of a Möbius strip that, to be read appropriately, must be cut out of the book and its ends pasted together with a single twist, so that it will forever read: … once upon a time there was a story that began…. Another story reprinted in this...