The No Variations Bibliographies 'Why don't we write a

'Why don't we write a novel

And all this phantasmagoria is faithful to reality

swerves and accelerates through a range of rhetorical shifts of gear as its narrator-protagonist turns his psychic pockets inside out and throws all the small-change detritus and wide-ranging vibrant currency of his mind into full view

literature involves a movement toward disappearance

Written when John Barth was 24 years old

The No Variations Bibliographies 'Why don't we write aA cryptic, self negating series of notes for an unfinished work of fiction, this astonishing book is made up of ideas for characters and plot points, anecdotes and tales, literary references both real and invented, and populated by an array of . . . A self negating series of notes for an unfinished work of fiction, this astonishing book is made up of ideas for characters and plots, of literary references both real and invented, and is populated by an