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) 209 exemplar
Game 5 exemplar
The Indian Uprising [short story] 4 exemplar
Concerning the Bodyguard 3 exemplar
Paraguay 2 exemplar
The Photographs 2 exemplar
The Genius {short story} 2 exemplar
Views of My Father Weeping 1 exemplar
At the End of the Mechanical Age 1 exemplar
[No title] 1 exemplar
Zombies 1 exemplar
Rare SIXTY STORIES by Donald Barthelme 1st Edition/1st Printing 1981 Very Good/VG- (1981) 1 exemplar
Racconti 1 exemplar
Amateurs 1 exemplar
Paraíso (Sleeples nights) 1 exemplar
Shower of Gold 1 exemplar
Regele 1 exemplar
The First Thing the Baby Did Wrong 1 exemplar
Barthelme Donald 1 exemplar
Swallowing 1 exemplar
Glass Mountain {short story} 1 exemplar
Tavatud kombed, koletud teod 1 exemplar
روی پله های کنسرواتوار 1 exemplar
The Bed (in McSweeney's 24 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar
The King 1 exemplar
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Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 698 exemplar
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 495 exemplar
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 376 exemplar
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 333 exemplar
McSweeney's Issue 24 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Trouble/Come Back, Donald Barthelme (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 277 exemplar
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 238 exemplar
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 218 exemplar
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 215 exemplar
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 141 exemplar
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 66 exemplar
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 61 exemplar
The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 28 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 — 16 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 — 2 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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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.
Perhaps one of the most pointless books I've ever read: a short piece of absurdist humour without the humour and with the absurdism being completely inert. Splayed rather than pointed in its motives, Donald Barthelme's The King makes no use of its interesting concept; that of King Arthur and his knights being present in Britain during the Second World War.
It's a struggle to determine what the point was of such a move: we must assume the idea came to Barthelme from the old legend that the Once and Future King will return to aid Britain in its hour of gravest need – and could there be any time of need more appropriate than 1940? However, aside from a few token and desultory name drops of Dunkirk and the Blitz, there's no attempt at all to utilise the World War Two potential, and the Arthurian court are about as relevant and essential to their new wartime setting as Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are to the proper functioning of the original Hamlet. Launcelot and Guinevere aren't dead here, however. Just limp.
It's hard to pin down what the writer was trying to do, if indeed he was trying to do anything. At one point I thought perhaps the anachronism of having King Arthur in the modern age was meant to be a commentary on the purported anachronism of monarchy in the modern age, but this idea was dropped in the text the instant it was raised. As too was the idea – perhaps Barthelme's only good one – of the quest for the Holy Grail being replaced by the quest to develop the first atomic bomb.
These were the only two signposts I could find in the author's inoffensive but empty meander of a book – though not so much signposts as broken twigs indicating that something, who knows what, had passed by. The King is just yet another of those books which seems determined to confirm 'post-modern' as a synonym for 'tedious, self-satisfied noodling'. Sometimes taking a risk on a promising book just doesn't pay off. It happens.… (mer)
It's a struggle to determine what the point was of such a move: we must assume the idea came to Barthelme from the old legend that the Once and Future King will return to aid Britain in its hour of gravest need – and could there be any time of need more appropriate than 1940? However, aside from a few token and desultory name drops of Dunkirk and the Blitz, there's no attempt at all to utilise the World War Two potential, and the Arthurian court are about as relevant and essential to their new wartime setting as Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are to the proper functioning of the original Hamlet. Launcelot and Guinevere aren't dead here, however. Just limp.
It's hard to pin down what the writer was trying to do, if indeed he was trying to do anything. At one point I thought perhaps the anachronism of having King Arthur in the modern age was meant to be a commentary on the purported anachronism of monarchy in the modern age, but this idea was dropped in the text the instant it was raised. As too was the idea – perhaps Barthelme's only good one – of the quest for the Holy Grail being replaced by the quest to develop the first atomic bomb.
These were the only two signposts I could find in the author's inoffensive but empty meander of a book – though not so much signposts as broken twigs indicating that something, who knows what, had passed by. The King is just yet another of those books which seems determined to confirm 'post-modern' as a synonym for 'tedious, self-satisfied noodling'. Sometimes taking a risk on a promising book just doesn't pay off. It happens.… (mer)
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