Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)
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Donald Barthelme was born on April 7, 1931, and was one of the major U.S. short story writers and novelists of the late twentieth century. Barthelme satirized American life. Born in Philadelphia, Barthelme spent part of his early life in Houston, Texas, and began to write fiction while working as a visa mer journalist, director of an art museum and university publicist. These occupations became fuel for his creative fire. His arsenal of techniques included parodies of television shows, radio plays and recipes, long and elaborate metaphors, complex dream sequences, and a break-neck narrative pace. After the publication of his first collection, Come Back Dr. Caligari (1964), Barthelme became a full-time writer of short stories and novels. The latter included Snow White (1967), The Dead Father (1975), and Paradise (1986). Barthelme also published three more short story collections, 60 Stories (1981), Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983), and 40 Stories (1987). Barthelme died of cancer in 1989. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Donald Barthelme
The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme (1992) 208 exemplar
Game 5 exemplar
The Indian Uprising [short story] 4 exemplar
Concerning the Bodyguard 3 exemplar
The Genius {short story} 2 exemplar
The Photographs 2 exemplar
Paraguay 2 exemplar
At the End of the Mechanical Age 1 exemplar
Great Days by Donald Barthelme (1979-01-03) 1 exemplar
[No title] 1 exemplar
Rare SIXTY STORIES by Donald Barthelme 1st Edition/1st Printing 1981 Very Good/VG- (1981) 1 exemplar
Shower of Gold 1 exemplar
Amateurs 1 exemplar
Paraíso (Sleeples nights) 1 exemplar
Zombies 1 exemplar
Views of My Father Weeping 1 exemplar
The Bed (in McSweeney's 24 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar
Barthelme Donald 1 exemplar
The First Thing the Baby Did Wrong 1 exemplar
Glass Mountain {short story} 1 exemplar
Tavatud kombed, koletud teod 1 exemplar
روی پله های کنسرواتوار 1 exemplar
Regele 1 exemplar
Swallowing 1 exemplar
The King 1 exemplar
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Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 709 exemplar
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 511 exemplar
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 380 exemplar
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 339 exemplar
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 280 exemplar
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 245 exemplar
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 221 exemplar
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 216 exemplar
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 147 exemplar
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 67 exemplar
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Fiction, Volume 1, Number 1 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Barthelme, Donald
- Födelsedag
- 1931-04-07
- Avled
- 1989-07-23
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dödsort
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- University of Houston
- Yrken
- curator (Houston Museum of Contemporary Art)
writer
author - Relationer
- Barthelme, Frederick (brother)
Barthelme, Steven (brother) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1978)
- Kort biografi
- Donald Barthelme was born in 1931 in Philadelphia. He was a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, winner of a National Book Award, a director of PEN and the Author's Guild, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His sixteen books -- including Snow White, The Dead Father, and City Life -- substantially redefined American short fiction for our time. In 1972 he won the National Book Award for children's literature for The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine of the Hithering Thithering Djinn. He died in 1989.
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De las pocas veces que no he podido terminar un libro a la primera. Al segundo intento pude acabarlo (agradezco su brevedad) pero sigue sin gustarme.
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this is another of those books where I feel I'm missing something big. each story consists of like a series of often surreal images, lines of speech or vignettes. for most stories the extent to which each segment fits together is very unclear and they only rarely fit into a coherent whole. Sometimes they do but you're just left going huh and wondering if you're missing something anyway. some of the images and words are good but a lot of them don't bring up any associations or ideas or anything for me. there is also a lot of confusing relatively long descriptions. a few of the stories are good, although not incredibly so. mostly I just feel like I'm reading and understanding the words but nothing more, it's not bringing up any emotions or ideas or anything on a regular basis, it's rarely interesting, just words. it's frustrating because it's not as if I hate it I'm just not feeling anything
and some are good like the new owner which is about how landlords are bad… (mer)
and some are good like the new owner which is about how landlords are bad… (mer)
I love Barthelme's shorter works, but I didn't enjoy this one at all, and and abandoned it after about fifty pages. To me, his writing style, so laden with irony, didn't suit the longer form. Such a constant barrage of irony on so many levels just left me alienated and failing to care. Maybe one day I'll come back to this and see what it has to offer.
This collection is full of experimentation and humor and probably some deep thoughts that I totally missed, and I'm glad it exists for whoever the receptive audience is.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 72
- Även av
- 59
- Medlemmar
- 7,070
- Popularitet
- #3,472
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 105
- ISBN
- 154
- Språk
- 12
- Favoritmärkt
- 60
