Donald Barthelme - Böcker

The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the form The short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems of inven...

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This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is styl...

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This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we...

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This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme''s earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is sty...

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''I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend , belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.'' Donald Barthelme is a puc...

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With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals re...

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William H. Gass has written of Donald Barthelme that "he has permanently enlarged our perception of the possibilities open to short fiction." In Forty Stories, the companion volume to "Sixty Stories," we encounter a dazzling ar...

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"The Dead Father "is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary nove...

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"e;I Bought a Little City [is] a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story - playing god, in a certain way."e; Donald Antrim, novelist. 'Got a little city, ain't it pretty'. Galveston, Texas, has been bought. It suits its new o...

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A glass mountain sits in the middle of a city and at the top sits a 'beautiful, enchanted symbol'. Seeking to disenchant it, the narrator must climb the mountain. Confronted by the jeers of acquaintances, the bodies of previous climbers and the cl...

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The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by...

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"No other word for it: a charming book." Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek

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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, fi...

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"Barthleme may have been radical in his time, but he's perfectly suited to our own." - Houston Chronicle One of the most influential and inventive writers of the twentieth century, Donald Barthelme wrote novels, short stories, parodies, ...

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