The Narrative Men, in: Tzvetan Todorov: The Poetics of Prose,
tr. Richard Howard, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1977,
zitiert und word-for-word übersetzt ins Englische von John Barth:
Tales Within Tales Within Tales, p. 235, in: The Friday Book, NY 1984, p. 218-238.
John Barth Tzvetan Todorov zu Frametales, Geschichten in Geschichten in Geschichten
( ) literally for her, figuratively for the rest of us.
One might add that if this is true, then not only is all fiction fiction
about fiction, but all fiction about fiction is in fact fiction about life.
Some of us understood that all along.
(Barth, The Friday Book, p. 236).
Alan Lindsay Death in the Funhouse: John Barth and Poststructural Aesthetics (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, Vol 2)
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