The Literature Express Portugal He begins by writing the

He begins by writing the first sentence and then about how the first sentence looks on the page

from his Algarve vacation back to Lisbon and the mental-hospital job he hates

wondering how to tell us anything about such empty lives

on the face of it

which won in 1973 — Barth has received the F

The Literature Express Portugal He begins by writing theA parable from Georgia involving a hundred writers, a train, and a month long trip across Europe. A bevy of mediocre writers are invited to a seminar aboard a specially chartered train, and this novel tracks their progress across Europe: bitter, bickering, and self absorbed. Aboard this Literature Express is a Georgian author whose love for the wife of his own Polish translator seems as doomed as his hopes for international success; worse still, it