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...JOHN BARTH'S End of the Road is one of my favorite post-modern novels, and when I have fantasized about someday making a movie, it has usually been one of the two or three books I have envisioned myself bringing to the screen in the early 1980s...
...Bloc. Garaudy, 56, is one of the pre-eminent figures of France's intellectual left. The son of a poor Marseille working-class family, he became a convert to the religious principles of Karl Barth and to the political ones of Karl Marx, in that order, by the age of 20. He remains a firm believer in both, and has been one of the foremost advocates of a Marxist-Christian dialogue. In attempting to reconcile the two, he applies Barth's lesson-"Whatever we say about God, it is men who say it"-to dialectical materialism. The humanism...
...always takes the movies a little while to catch up. The so-called "black humorists" of the early 1960s-Joseph Heller, John Barth, Terry Southern among others-are only now beginning to have their books made into films. On the face of it, they make prime movie material. Crazy, anarchistic, sometimes scurrilous, they seem to offer endless visual possibilities for acerbic comedy. But the problems of adaptation are also uniquely difficult. Much of the wit of these books comes not from situation, but from tone and style, brittle qualities that tend to disintegrate before the camera's demanding...
...excessive charity. Chaos? Yes. Senselessness? Yes. Disintegration and despair? Be the author's guest. The dour view itself is not remarkable. Well-wrought chaos and subtly evoked senselessness have never been in such abundant literary supply. A reader thinks, with varying respect, of Mailer, Heller, Vonnegut, Cheever, Barth...
...Abraham and Isaac. In Charles' existential updating, however, there is no sacrificial ram to substitute for Isaac and no hand of God to stop Abraham's knife. The New Satyricon often reads like a pegged-leg parody of both William Burroughs' Naked Lunch and John Barth's Giles Goat...