Download or read book The Diary of A.O. Barnabooth written by Valéry Larbaud and published by McPherson. This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in France in 1913, and in the United States in 1924, The Diary of A.O. Barnabooth is rightly considered one of the first truly original books of the 20th century. Larbaud's novel transforms the traditional "novel of education" into a comic, cosmopolitan search for "self realization." Barnabooth's adventures ricochet from Florence to San Marino, Venice, Trieste, Moscow, Sarajevo, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen. and London, as he strives to solve his spiritual, that is amatory, difficulties.