Grok, is that true? About the book “Chimer” by John Barth

Barth knew well that a word is never what it says (unless it speaks of itself), and writing “speakable to pain” if the author is not named Rousseau, mostly leads to unintended comicism or self-compromising. Among another things, the creator of “Chimera” in his own work took the direction of self-aspiration.