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Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories (Hardcover): Donald Barthelme, Charles McGrath Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories (Hardcover)
Donald Barthelme, Charles McGrath
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R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Not-Knowing - The Essays and Interviews (Paperback): Donald Barthelme Not-Knowing - The Essays and Interviews (Paperback)
Donald Barthelme; Edited by Kim Herzinger; Preface by Kim Herzinger; Introduction by John Barth
R443 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R45 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 pastimes and obsessions, but most of all for the way they caputure the strangeness of life.
Not-Knowing amounts to the posthumous manifesto of one of our premier literary modernists. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two never previously published; and meditations on everything from Superman III to the art of rendering "Melancholy Baby" on jazz banjolele. This is a rich and eclectic selection of work by the man Robert Coover has called "one of the great citizens of contemporary world letters."

"From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Dead Father (Paperback): Donald Barthelme The Dead Father (Paperback)
Donald Barthelme; Introduction by Donald Antrim
R386 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R65 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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 the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading "The Dead Father," one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive."

Sixty Stories (Paperback, New ed): David Gates, Donald Barthelme Sixty Stories (Paperback, New ed)
David Gates, Donald Barthelme 1
R448 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R83 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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 know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected.

The Teachings of Don B. - Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays (Paperback): Donald Barthelme The Teachings of Don B. - Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays (Paperback)
Donald Barthelme; Edited by Kim Herzinger; Introduction by Thomas Pynchon
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R489 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Barthelme . . . happens to be one of a handful of American authors, there to make us look bad, who know instinctively how to stash the merchandise, bamboozle the inspectors, and smuggle their nocturnal contraband right on past the checkpoints of daylight 'reality.'" -Thomas Pynchon, from the Introduction Sixty-three rare or previously uncollected works by a master of the American short story form *A hypothetical episode of Batman hilariously slowed down to soap-opera speed. *A game of baseball as played by T. S. Eliot and Willem "Big Bull" de Kooning. *A recipe for feeding sixty pork-sotted celebrants at your daughter's wedding. *An outlandishly illustrated account of a scientific quest for God. These astonishing tropes of the imagination could only have been generated by Donald Barthelme, who-until his death in 1989-seemed intent on goosing American letters into taking a quantum leap. Gleeful, melancholy, erudite, and wonderfully subversive, The Teachings of Don B. is a literary testament cum time bomb, with the power to blast any reader into an altered state of consciousness. "A small education in laughter, melancholy, and the English language." -The New York Times Book Review "Barthelme, who died in 1989, was a distinctive master of fragments . . . Anger, wit, extravagant associations and disassociations; these would be less memorable if it were not for Barthelme's ability to evoke dreams and the tenderness with which he does it." -Los Angeles Times

Sixty Stories (Paperback): Donald Barthelme Sixty Stories (Paperback)
Donald Barthelme; Introduction by David Gates
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R484 R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Save R74 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts. Like all of Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.

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