The Perfect Combination Of 'Algebra' And 'Fire'

What the essay resolved is: John Barth raised how human orientate in the post-modernism culture context since the sixties of the 20th century, including how he raising this question and the answer John Barth tried to provide for us.John Bath published the article "literature of exhaustion" in 1967.John Bath thought that the fundamental purpose of "literature of exhaustion" was to announce his post-modernist aesthetic principles. John Bath created aesthetic principle of "Algebra" and "Fire" and many works. His fundamental intention was to resolve the people's problem of "orientation" at present. This issue contains three kinds of meaning: firstly, how post-modern writers orientate in the literature history; secondly, how the middle class represented by the elite intellectuals orientate from both inner world and outside world in the post-modern society; finally, people need constantly re-orientate facing the new things or new world. "Algebra" stand for the labyrinthine narration, "fire" stand for the writer's passions. Postmodernist writers should "rebel along the traditional" to transcend the past into the future.John Bath's aesthetic principle reflected his philosophy: as individuals can't grasp the internal and external world at present, then try to find their places. People experience a stage of spiritual sublimation in order to find their own survival position: painful self-questioned; going out the survival value of nothing; find their positions in the random world. In this essay, I want to discuss John Bath' aesthetic principle and philosophy through his classic works, such as "Chimera" "Once Upon a Time - a Floating Opera," "The Floating Opera""The End of the Road" and so on.In his works, John Bath raised the problem of human living conditions that conforms the concerns of contemporary Western literary and cultural trends, but also show a unique style of "Bath-style" creation.