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...GILES GOAT-BOY by John Barth. 710 pages. Doubleday...
...maybe illuminate, both Judaism and Christianity, as well as the central tenet of 20th century humanism-that all life can be accounted for in terms of reason. In this prodigious, labyrinthine fiction, the reader is constantly baffled and bamboozled by trap doors and intellectual booby traps. Reading Giles Goat-Boy, and debating its meaning, will surely be one of the most bracing literary exercises of 1966 and beyond. It is a satire of major import...
Along comes a Messiah from the School of Animal Husbandry-a half-beast, half-boy called George Goat-Boy. The looping plot of Barth's intricate fable centers on George's struggle to be accepted as the new Grand Tutor...
...Answer Is Power. As with the Biblical Jesus, who is descended from both the Divine and the House of David, Goat-Boy is given both mystical origin through WESCAC and natural origin from a breed of Toggenburger goats on the campus animal farm. His mother, Virginia R. Hector, the chancellor's chaste daughter who works in the WESCAC programming room, falls into a trance before the machine and somehow is delivered of the goat-child. He is marked by a pair of horns. The goatherd, a disgraced Moishian (Jewish) professor, is cleared of suspicion...