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", [1] and finds himself in the stories of Sindbad and Scheherazade. [2] The novel makes use of a challenging double-stranded narrative and a rich prose style. [3]
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", [1] and finds himself in the stories of Sindbad and Scheherazade. [2] The novel makes use of a challenging double-stranded narrative and a rich prose style. [3]