The protagonist of a novel by this man gets a job at Wicomico State College and has an affair with Joe Morgan's wife Rennie before returning to a state of "psychological paralysis".
This author described how Beckett and Borges succeeded Joyce and Kafka as "technically contemporary" writers in an essay called "The Literature of Exhaustion". The protagonist of a novel by this man gets a job at Wicomico State College and has an affair with Joe Morgan's wife Rennie before returning to a state of "psychological paralysis". After writing about Jacob Horner in The End of the Road, this author wrote a novel about a man tutored by Henry Burlingame who marries Joan Toast after becoming Poet Laureate of Maryland. For 10 points, name this author who satirized the modern university in Giles Goat-Boy and who wrote that aforementioned novel, The Sot-Weed Factor.
This author described how Beckett and Borges succeeded Joyce and Kafka as "technically contemporary" writers in an essay called "The Literature of Exhaustion".
John Simmons {Barth}