The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor explained
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor is a novel by American writer John Barth, published in 1991. It is a postmodern metafictional story of a man who jumps overboard from a modern replica of a medieval Arab ship and is rescued by sailors from the world of Sinbad the Sailor. Eventually he makes his way to "Baghdad, the City of Peace", and finds himself in the stories of Sindbad and Scheherazade. The novel makes use of a challenging double-stranded narrative and a rich prose style.
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. The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction. https://books.google.com/books?id=g-c1eOFxYIgC&pg=PA121. "Neither one nor quite two": Barths Lost in the Funhouse. 2012-05-12. 1993. SIU Press. 978-0-8093-1841-4.
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