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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Donald Barthelme

Sixty Stories (1981) 1,628 eksemplarer
Forty Stories (1987) 954 eksemplarer
Snow White (1965) 818 eksemplarer
The Dead Father (1975) 709 eksemplarer
The King (1990) 372 eksemplarer
Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964) 302 eksemplarer
City Life (1970) 264 eksemplarer
Paradise (1986) 247 eksemplarer
Amateurs (1976) 193 eksemplarer
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) 156 eksemplarer
Sadness (1972) 154 eksemplarer
Flying to America: 45 More Stories (2007) 121 eksemplarer
Guilty Pleasures (1974) 100 eksemplarer
Great Days (1979) 91 eksemplarer
Collected Stories (2021) 74 eksemplarer
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine (1971) 63 eksemplarer
Sam's Bar (1987) 18 eksemplarer
The Balloon [short fiction] (1966) 8 eksemplarer
41 verhalen (2016) 8 eksemplarer
The School [short story] (2014) 7 eksemplarer
I Bought a Little City (2014) 6 eksemplarer
Game 5 eksemplarer
Here in the Village (1978) 4 eksemplarer
The Glass Mountain (2014) 4 eksemplarer
Presents (1980) 4 eksemplarer
A Manual for Sons (2010) 2 eksemplarer
Paraguay 2 eksemplarer
The Photographs 2 eksemplarer
Dilettanti (2015) 2 eksemplarer
Der Kopfsprung (1996) 2 eksemplarer
[No title] 1 eksemplar
Shower of Gold 1 eksemplar
El pare mort (2020) 1 eksemplar
Seixanta contes (2022) 1 eksemplar
Racconti (2022) 1 eksemplar
Amateurs 1 eksemplar
Regele 1 eksemplar
Zombies 1 eksemplar
Emeraude (1992) 1 eksemplar
No Royalty A/C Snow White (1968) 1 eksemplar
Barthelme Donald 1 eksemplar
Voltiges (1990) 1 eksemplar
Padesát povídek (1999) 1 eksemplar
Contact 7 (1961) 1 eksemplar
Swallowing 1 eksemplar
The King 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Bidragyder — 1,130 eksemplarer
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Bidragyder — 461 eksemplarer
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Bidragyder — 368 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993) — Bidragyder — 365 eksemplarer
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (1984) — Bidragyder — 362 eksemplarer
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragyder — 354 eksemplarer
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Bidragyder — 339 eksemplarer
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Bidragyder — 324 eksemplarer
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Bidragyder — 291 eksemplarer
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Bidragyder — 282 eksemplarer
Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Bidragyder — 277 eksemplarer
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Bidragyder — 267 eksemplarer
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Bidragyder — 213 eksemplarer
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Bidragyder — 211 eksemplarer
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Bidragyder — 207 eksemplarer
Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker (1997) — Bidragyder — 186 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (1990) — Bidragyder — 160 eksemplarer
SF12 (1968) — Bidragyder — 136 eksemplarer
11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1966) — Bidragyder — 113 eksemplarer
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Bidragyder — 111 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1986 (1986) — Bidragyder — 97 eksemplarer
American Short Stories (1976) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver95 eksemplarer
Best SF: 1971 (1972) — Bidragyder — 86 eksemplarer
Science Fiction: The Future (1971) — Bidragyder — 84 eksemplarer
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Bidragyder — 75 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 1986 (1986) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (2003) — Bidragyder — 51 eksemplarer
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology (1975) — Bidragyder — 44 eksemplarer
Granta 1: New American Writing (1979) — Bidragyder — 44 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1980 (1980) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer
Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories (1990) — Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
Mortal Echoes: Encounters With the End (2018) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1975 (1975) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the 70's (1973) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Bibliothek Suhrkamp. Ein Lesebuch, Klassiker der Moderne (1989) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Modern Fiction About Schoolteaching: An Anthology (1995) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
New World Writing 20 (1962) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Fiction, Volume 1, Number 1 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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Kanonisk navn
Barthelme, Donald
Fødselsdato
1931-04-07
Dødsdag
1989-07-23
Køn
male
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dødssted
Houston, Texas, USA
Bopæl
New York, New York, USA
Uddannelse
University of Houston
Erhverv
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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MyrddynWylt | 4 andre anmeldelser | Dec 26, 2023 |
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
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tombomp | 11 andre anmeldelser | Oct 31, 2023 |
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.
 
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robfwalter | 6 andre anmeldelser | Jul 31, 2023 |
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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Kiramke | 5 andre anmeldelser | Jun 27, 2023 |

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Popularitet
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Vurdering
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Anmeldelser
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ISBN
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