Robert Scholes
The Fabulators.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. First edition. 180 pages.
Volume is bound in gray cloth, with stamped dark lettering to spine. Book  shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and without markings. Price-clipped dust jacket displays mild shelfwear, with minor creasing and tears at edges.
"The post-realistic, post-romantic novel, a far remove from the ordered fiction of the nineteenth century, has become by now a recognized part of the contemporary literary scene. Evocative and subjective, intricately structured rather than plotted, modern "fabulations" - a word reintroduced to the language by Professor Scholes - are often baffling to read, for they take flight from accepted "realistic" fictional concepts, dislocating time and space and purposely blurring lines between the actual  and the artificial...The works and authors he treats most extensively are the "Alexandria Quartet" by Lawrence Durrell; "Cat's Cradle" and "Mother Night" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; "The Lime Twig" by John Hawkes; "The Unicorn" by Iris Murdoch, and "Giles Goat-Boy" by John Barth".