A collection of Barthelme's stories, including previously uncollected pieces. Chronicling the modern world, the situations he creates are both ordinary and strange, often reflecting the absurdity and meaninglessness of life. His other novels include "Snow White", "The Dead Father" and "The King".
This book includes selected stories from eight of Barthelme's previous collections published between 1964 and 1979--many of which are now out of print--and nine previously uncollected stories. Over the years his stylistic innovations have had a wide influence on short story authors and have inspired many imitators, but this collection demonstrates ...
Barthelme's last book, published posthumously, is a novel composed in dialogue in which King Arthur finds himself battling against the Nazis in World War II. Arthur simultaneously prepares his son Mordred for the duties of ruling the kingdom. Ultimately Arthur and Guinevere, having exhausted mythmaking as their only weapon, retreat into domestic ...
Barthelme encapsulates ideas about the meaning of fathers and fatherhood in this parabolic tale of a son, his wife, and his 'brothers' who drag and tow a gargantuan 'father' to his final resting place. Although 'dead,' the father is quite talkative, and on the long journey he engages his sons on their shortcomings and solidifies his criticisms ...
Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the twentieth century. Through his unique, richly textured, and brilliantly realized novels, stories, parodies, satires, fables, and essays, Barthelme redefined a generation of American letters. To John Hawkes, he was "one of our greatest of all comic writers." Robert Coover ...
Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends up living with three nubile lingerie models who use him as a sexual object. Set in the 1980s, there's further tension between Simon's desire to exploit this stereotypical fantasy and ...
The wildly varied essays in "Not-Knowing" combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America's masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two previously unpublished; and meditations on everything from ...
A rich variety of writings by Barthelme (1931-1989) includes a baseball game played by T. S. Eliot and Willem de Kooning; a scientific search for God; and many more of Barthelme's incomparable works--all previously uncollected.
A rich variety of writings by Barthelme (1931-1989) includes a baseball game played by T. S. Eliot and Willem de Kooning; a scientific search for God; and many more of Barthelme's incomparable works--all previously uncollected.
Stories by Donald Barthelme that perfectly represent his eccentric worldview--small, gemlike works that were highly influential when first published and are still counted among the classics of experimental fiction.
When Donald Barthelme died at the age of 54, he was perhaps the most imitated (if not emulated) practitioner of American literature. Caustic, slyly observant, transgressive, verbally scintillating, Barthelme's essays, stories, and novels redefined a generation of American letters and remain unparalleled for the way they capture our national ...
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