Tarantula

Tarantula

Tarantula is an experimental novel by Bob Dylan, written between 1965 and 1966. It employs stream of consciousness writing, somewhat in the style of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. One section of the book parodies the Leadbelly song "Black Betty". Reviews of the book liken it to his self-penned liner notes to two of his albums recorded around the same time, Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. Dylan would later cite Tarantula as a book he had never fully signed up to write: "Things were running wild at that point. It never was my intention to write a...
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Author:Bob Dylan
Genre:Novel, Fiction, Music, Poetry
Number of editions:10

Author of Tarantula

Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Age:70
Birthplace:Duluth, Minnesota

Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, is an American singer-songwriter, author, poet, and painter, who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal chronicler and a reluctant figurehead of American...
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Additional works by Bob Dylan
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Chronicles, Vol. 1 Autobiography
The Definitive Bob Dylan Songbook Music
Writings and Drawings Music
11 outlined epitaphs
In his own write
Bob Dylan
Lyrics
Cronicas/ Chronicles
Dylan and the Dead
Songs Bob Dylan
Down in the Groove
Lyrics:1962-2001
Dylan, the essential interviews
Man gave names to all the animals
Biograph
Nashville skyline
The Songs of Bob Dylan From 1966 Through 1975
More Classic
The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2
Play Guitar With...Bob Dylan
Younger than that now
Good As I Been to You
Approximately complete works
Classic Dylan
50
Inspirations
Drawn Blank
Saved! the Gospel Speeches of Bob Dylan
Acoustic Masters for Guitar
Bob Dylan
Hollywood foto-rhetoric
Lyrics, 1962-1985
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Literary Genres

Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Music
Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and...
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Poetry
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic...
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Frequently Asked Questions

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    How many pages is the book "Tarantula"?
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    The work contains 137 pages.
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    "Tarantula" is of which literary genre?
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    The book is classified as- Novel, Fiction, Music and Poetry.
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    The work, "Tarantula" is of which literary category?
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    "Tarantula" is of the category: Music and Rock

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