If you want it, you want it. If not, then forget about it.

Author: Friedman
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: By freely traveling between the past and the present (or vice versa), moving from one place to another at will, and leaping from one tangential anecdote to another, Anything Goes explores various new and possible narrative techniques. The narrator, while telling stories about the French, guides readers on topics such as politics, sex, America, literature, humor, death, and the art of storytelling, engaging in endless, rambling discussions. Thus, the process of this "exaggerated second-hand story, read aloud while standing or sitting" (as indicated by the subtitle) is also one of its constant deviations, ultimately dissolving itself as the novel's voices multiply. Fundamentally, Anything Goes is a postmodern novel. Its emergence broke the conventional norms of traditional novels or writing. Its strategy is audacity and humor, and its purpose is to become the kind of "humorous literature" the narrator speaks of.