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	== Retrospectives ==		== Retrospectives ==

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	=== Hardcover ===		=== Hardcover ===

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	[[Rangoon]] is a book written by [[Frederick Barthelme]] and illustrated by [[Mayo Thompson]], published in 1970 by Winter House Ltd.		[[Rangoon]] is a book written by [[Frederick Barthelme]] and illustrated by [[Mayo Thompson]], published in 1970 by Winter House Ltd.

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	[[Rangoon]] is a book written by [[Frederick Barthelme]] and illustrated by [[Mayo Thompson]], published in 1970 by Winter House Ltd.		[[Rangoon]] is a book written by [[Frederick Barthelme]] and illustrated by [[Mayo Thompson]], published in 1970 by Winter House Ltd.

			== Background ==

			* Followed by ''[[War and War]]''

	== Contents ==		== Contents ==

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	[[Rangoon]] is a book written by [[Frederick Barthelme]] and illustrated by [[Mayo Thompson]], published in 1970 by Winter House Ltd.		[[Rangoon]] is a book written by [[Frederick Barthelme]] and illustrated by [[Mayo Thompson]], published in 1970 by Winter House Ltd.

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	[[Rangoon]] is a book ~~of fiction~~ by [[Frederick Barthelme]], illustrated by [[Mayo Thompson]], published in 1970 by Winter House Ltd.		[[Rangoon]] is a book written by [[Frederick Barthelme]] and illustrated by [[Mayo Thompson]], published in 1970 by Winter House Ltd.

	== Contents ==		== Contents ==

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	John Calvin Hughes<blockquote>Barthelme's first two books were ''Rangoon'' (1970) and ''[[War and War]]'' (1971). Both were metafictional texts, very different in form and content from the work for which Barthelme is widely known. ''Rangoon'' is a series of short stories with illustrations by [[Mayo Thompson]]. The book, taken as a whole, including its cover and title page, is a self-conscious attempt to parody the idea of a book. The cover is a version of the black-and-white generic products that were once popular in grocery stores. The title pages (actually two facing pages) is a blurry photograph of some downtown area with the superimposition of the words "RANGOON1938." The stories are absurdist, though not really self-conscious. The book is 195 pages and contains 17 "stories" and numerous drawings and photographs, as well as two solid black pages. A reviewer for ''Library Journal'' wrote that the stories in ''Rangoon'' "probably [are not] supposed to be read; they are more turn-the-page found objects", and this is true. The stories are nearly unreadable, often pointless (if sometimes humorous) non sequiturs that challenge and disrupt the traditional short story and readers' expectations. For example, the first story is titled "North American homes." The story opens with the first person narrator walking in the woods in Florida when a woman leaps out of a bush and lands on her back before him. With some difficulty, he picks her up, leans her against a tree, and rubs ointment on her face, neck, and back. He thinks she likes it, and he decides to take her home with him. Carrying her over his shoulder, he realizes her skirt is riding up, and he wishes he had a mirror. At home, he puts her upstairs. He reflects upon his good luck in Florida, for nowhere else could he have found such a submissive girl lying on the ground for him to pick up. He is proud to live in Florida where important people come from other places to do their work, including a fat man who is planning a giant sweatshirt for the city square. The seemingly pointless non sequiturs continue throughout this story and throughout the entire book.		John Calvin Hughes

			<blockquote>
			Barthelme's first two books were ''Rangoon'' (1970) and ''[[War and War]]'' (1971). Both were metafictional texts, very different in form and content from the work for which Barthelme is widely known. ''Rangoon'' is a series of short stories with illustrations by [[Mayo Thompson]]. The book, taken as a whole, including its cover and title page, is a self-conscious attempt to parody the idea of a book. The cover is a version of the black-and-white generic products that were once popular in grocery stores. The title pages (actually two facing pages) is a blurry photograph of some downtown area with the superimposition of the words "RANGOON1938." The stories are absurdist, though not really self-conscious. The book is 195 pages and contains 17 "stories" and numerous drawings and photographs, as well as two solid black pages. A reviewer for ''Library Journal'' wrote that the stories in ''Rangoon'' "probably [are not] supposed to be read; they are more turn-the-page found objects", and this is true. The stories are nearly unreadable, often pointless (if sometimes humorous) non sequiturs that challenge and disrupt the traditional short story and readers' expectations. For example, the first story is titled "North American homes." The story opens with the first person narrator walking in the woods in Florida when a woman leaps out of a bush and lands on her back before him. With some difficulty, he picks her up, leans her against a tree, and rubs ointment on her face, neck, and back. He thinks she likes it, and he decides to take her home with him. Carrying her over his shoulder, he realizes her skirt is riding up, and he wishes he had a mirror. At home, he puts her upstairs. He reflects upon his good luck in Florida, for nowhere else could he have found such a submissive girl lying on the ground for him to pick up. He is proud to live in Florida where important people come from other places to do their work, including a fat man who is planning a giant sweatshirt for the city square. The seemingly pointless non sequiturs continue throughout this story and throughout the entire book.

			"North American homes" is not a story in the usual sense. There is complication, but no resolution. Indeed, every sentence in the story is yet another complication in that each new sentence confounds the reader's expectations of linear plot. In that sense, the story is a parody of the idea of complication and resolution. On the one hand, the story seems to ask for interpretation: some clever reader might suggest that the allusion to Fred Hoyle points to forces unseen in the story, that the lack of linear plot is actually a result of influences on characters and events by forces outside the readers' ken. Hoyle's physical theories have not been widely accepted: he is thinking outside the contemporary paradigm of physics, in the same way that writers of metafiction attempt to shift the paradigm of fiction. The way the characters in the story act may be a clue to posit some as yet unseen fictional force at work on them, as Hoyle uses the slowed rotation of the sun to claim the existence of forces he cannot yet identify. Max Planck's work with quantum mechanics proposes that on the level of the subatomic cause and effect and traditional logic break down, as indeed they seem to in "North American homes." But, on the other hand, the story also seems to suggest that, given the fictional nature of stories, anything can happen, no matter how absurd, how unrelated, how illogical, and that, therefore, the story does not have to mean, but be. And that is the rub: interpretation of literary texts, "readings," depend upon an article of faith, an understanding upon the part of the critic that what is written is done so in good faith. The whiff of a suggestion that the text is a "put-on" renders interpretation absurd.
			</blockquote>

	"North American homes" is not a story in the usual sense. There is complication, but no resolution. Indeed, every sentence in the story is yet another complication in that each new sentence confounds the reader's expectations of linear plot. In that sense, the story is a parody of the idea of complication and resolution. On the one hand, the story seems to ask for interpretation: some clever reader might suggest that the allusion to Fred Hoyle points to forces unseen in the story, that the lack of linear plot is actually a result of influences on characters and events by forces outside the readers' ken. Hoyle's physical theories have not been widely accepted: he is thinking outside the contemporary paradigm of physics, in the same way that writers of metafiction attempt to shift the paradigm of fiction. The way the characters in the story act may be a clue to posit some as yet unseen fictional force at work on them, as Hoyle uses the slowed rotation of the sun to claim the existence of forces he cannot yet identify. Max Planck's work with quantum mechanics proposes that on the level of the subatomic cause and effect and traditional logic break down, as indeed they seem to in "North American homes." But, on the other hand, the story also seems to suggest that, given the fictional nature of stories, anything can happen, no matter how absurd, how unrelated, how illogical, and that, therefore, the story does not have to mean, but be. And that is the rub: interpretation of literary texts, "readings," depend upon an article of faith, an understanding upon the part of the critic that what is written is done so in good faith. The whiff of a suggestion that the text is a "put-on" renders interpretation absurd.</blockquote>
	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:Novels]]		[[Category:Novels]]

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	2003<ref>https://www.proquest.com/openview/bfc7c30c68a4d2411b76e6924f56580d/</ref>		2003<ref>https://www.proquest.com/openview/bfc7c30c68a4d2411b76e6924f56580d/</ref>

	John Calvin Hughes<blockquote>Barthelme's first two books were ''Rangoon'' (1970) and ''War and War'' (1971). Both were metafictional texts, very different in form and content from the work for which Barthelme is widely known. ''Rangoon'' is a series of short stories with illustrations by Mayo Thompson. The book, taken as a whole, including its cover and title page, is a self-conscious attempt to parody the idea of a book. The cover is a version of the black-and-white generic products that were once popular in grocery stores. The title pages (actually two facing pages) is a blurry photograph of some downtown area with the superimposition of the words "RANGOON1938." The stories are absurdist, though not really self-conscious. The book is 195 pages and contains 17 "stories" and numerous drawings and photographs, as well as two solid black pages. A reviewer for ''Library Journal'' wrote that the stories in ''Rangoon'' "probably [are not] supposed to be read; they are more turn-the-page found objects", and this is true. The stories are nearly unreadable, often pointless (if sometimes humorous) non sequiturs that challenge and disrupt the traditional short story and readers' expectations. For example, the first story is titled "North American homes." The story opens with the first person narrator walking in the woods in Florida when a woman leaps out of a bush and lands on her back before him. With some difficulty, he picks her up, leans her against a tree, and rubs ointment on her face, neck, and back. He thinks she likes it, and he decides to take her home with him. Carrying her over his shoulder, he realizes her skirt is riding up, and he wishes he had a mirror. At home, he puts her upstairs. He reflects upon his good luck in Florida, for nowhere else could he have found such a submissive girl lying on the ground for him to pick up. He is proud to live in Florida where important people come from other places to do their work, including a fat man who is planning a giant sweatshirt for the city square. The seemingly pointless non sequiturs continue throughout this story and throughout the entire book.</blockquote><blockquote>"North American homes" is not a story in the usual sense. There is complication, but no resolution. Indeed, every sentence in the story is yet another complication in that each new sentence confounds the reader's expectations of linear plot. In that sense, the story is a parody of the idea of complication and resolution. On the one hand, the story seems to ask for interpretation: some clever reader might suggest that the allusion to Fred Hoyle points to forces unseen in the story, that the lack of linear plot is actually a result of influences on characters and events by forces outside the readers' ken. Hoyle's physical theories have not been widely accepted: he is thinking outside the contemporary paradigm of physics, in the same way that writers of metafiction attempt to shift the paradigm of fiction. The way the characters in the story act may be a clue to posit some as yet unseen fictional force at work on them, as Hoyle uses the slowed rotation of the sun to claim the existence of forces he cannot yet identify. Max Planck's work with quantum mechanics proposes that on the level of the subatomic cause and effect and traditional logic break down, as indeed they seem to in "North American homes." But, on the other hand, the story also seems to suggest that, given the fictional nature of stories, anything can happen, no matter how absurd, how unrelated, how illogical, and that, therefore, the story does not have to mean, but be. And that is the rub: interpretation of literary texts, "readings," depend upon an article of faith, an understanding upon the part of the critic that what is written is done so in good faith. The whiff of a suggestion that the text is a "put-on" renders interpretation absurd.</blockquote>		John Calvin Hughes<blockquote>Barthelme's first two books were ''Rangoon'' (1970) and ''[[War and War]]'' (1971). Both were metafictional texts, very different in form and content from the work for which Barthelme is widely known. ''Rangoon'' is a series of short stories with illustrations by [[Mayo Thompson]]. The book, taken as a whole, including its cover and title page, is a self-conscious attempt to parody the idea of a book. The cover is a version of the black-and-white generic products that were once popular in grocery stores. The title pages (actually two facing pages) is a blurry photograph of some downtown area with the superimposition of the words "RANGOON1938." The stories are absurdist, though not really self-conscious. The book is 195 pages and contains 17 "stories" and numerous drawings and photographs, as well as two solid black pages. A reviewer for ''Library Journal'' wrote that the stories in ''Rangoon'' "probably [are not] supposed to be read; they are more turn-the-page found objects", and this is true. The stories are nearly unreadable, often pointless (if sometimes humorous) non sequiturs that challenge and disrupt the traditional short story and readers' expectations. For example, the first story is titled "North American homes." The story opens with the first person narrator walking in the woods in Florida when a woman leaps out of a bush and lands on her back before him. With some difficulty, he picks her up, leans her against a tree, and rubs ointment on her face, neck, and back. He thinks she likes it, and he decides to take her home with him. Carrying her over his shoulder, he realizes her skirt is riding up, and he wishes he had a mirror. At home, he puts her upstairs. He reflects upon his good luck in Florida, for nowhere else could he have found such a submissive girl lying on the ground for him to pick up. He is proud to live in Florida where important people come from other places to do their work, including a fat man who is planning a giant sweatshirt for the city square. The seemingly pointless non sequiturs continue throughout this story and throughout the entire book.

			"North American homes" is not a story in the usual sense. There is complication, but no resolution. Indeed, every sentence in the story is yet another complication in that each new sentence confounds the reader's expectations of linear plot. In that sense, the story is a parody of the idea of complication and resolution. On the one hand, the story seems to ask for interpretation: some clever reader might suggest that the allusion to Fred Hoyle points to forces unseen in the story, that the lack of linear plot is actually a result of influences on characters and events by forces outside the readers' ken. Hoyle's physical theories have not been widely accepted: he is thinking outside the contemporary paradigm of physics, in the same way that writers of metafiction attempt to shift the paradigm of fiction. The way the characters in the story act may be a clue to posit some as yet unseen fictional force at work on them, as Hoyle uses the slowed rotation of the sun to claim the existence of forces he cannot yet identify. Max Planck's work with quantum mechanics proposes that on the level of the subatomic cause and effect and traditional logic break down, as indeed they seem to in "North American homes." But, on the other hand, the story also seems to suggest that, given the fictional nature of stories, anything can happen, no matter how absurd, how unrelated, how illogical, and that, therefore, the story does not have to mean, but be. And that is the rub: interpretation of literary texts, "readings," depend upon an article of faith, an understanding upon the part of the critic that what is written is done so in good faith. The whiff of a suggestion that the text is a "put-on" renders interpretation absurd.</blockquote>
	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:Novels]]		[[Category:Novels]]