The Inner Immigrant Norway The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired

The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic

half-lucidly

"John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor is a brilliantly specialized performance

the lean prose of this haunting novel blurs echoes of a past with an ambiguous present to create a reality in the way that an arroyo remembers the rush of water that carved it

Telling the story from various points of view

The Inner Immigrant Norway The Sot-Weed Factor has acquiredThese essayistic short stories, penned over a thirty year period, follow Fabian, Mihkel Mutts strange and self indulgent alter ego, and his adventures in newly independent Estonia. Mutts stories highlight the lingering absurdities of the previous Soviet regime, at the same time taking ironic aim at the triumphs and defeats, the virtues and vices of the Estonian intelligentsia. These essayistic short stories, penned over a thirty year period, follow