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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.

References

1. Korda 1991.
2. Slethaug 1993, p. 136.
3. Lesher 2000, p. 68.

Works cited

• Lesher, Linda Parent (2000). The Best Novels of the Nineties: A Reader's Guide. McFarland. ISBN 9780786407422.
• Korda, Michael (February 4, 1991). "All Wet". New York Magazine. p. 49.
• Slethaug, Gordon (1993). ""Neither one nor quite two": Barth's Lost in the Funhouse". The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-1841-4. Retrieved 2012-05-12.

Further reading

• Clavier, Berndt (2007). "Romance Realism, Montage: Textualites of The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor". John Barth And Postmodernism: Spatiality, Travel, Montage. Peter Lang. pp. 229–244. ISBN 978-0-8204-6385-8. Retrieved 2012-05-19.

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