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Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)

Autor(a) de Sixty Stories

71+ Works 7,046 Membros 105 Críticas 60 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Obras por Donald Barthelme

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

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Contribuidor — 1,552 exemplares
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 1,130 exemplares
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Contribuidor — 706 exemplares
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 461 exemplares
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Contribuidor — 368 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993) — Contribuidor — 365 exemplares
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (1984) — Contribuidor — 362 exemplares
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Contribuidor — 354 exemplares
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 339 exemplares
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Contribuidor — 324 exemplares
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Contribuidor — 291 exemplares
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Contribuidor — 282 exemplares
Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contribuidor — 277 exemplares
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 267 exemplares
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 213 exemplares
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Contribuidor — 207 exemplares
Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker (1997) — Contribuidor — 186 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (1990) — Contribuidor — 160 exemplares
SF12 (1968) — Contribuidor — 136 exemplares
11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1966) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Contribuidor — 111 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1986 (1986) — Contribuidor — 97 exemplares
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuidor, algumas edições95 exemplares
Best SF: 1971 (1972) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
Science Fiction: The Future (1971) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1986 (1986) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (2003) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology (1975) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Granta 1: New American Writing (1979) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1980 (1980) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories (1990) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Mortal Echoes: Encounters With the End (2018) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1975 (1975) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the 70's (1973) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Bibliothek Suhrkamp. Ein Lesebuch, Klassiker der Moderne (1989) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Modern Fiction About Schoolteaching: An Anthology (1995) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
New World Writing 20 (1962) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Fiction, Volume 1, Number 1 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Barthelme, Donald
Data de nascimento
1931-04-07
Data de falecimento
1989-07-23
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Local de falecimento
Houston, Texas, USA
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Educação
University of Houston
Ocupações
curator (Houston Museum of Contemporary Art)
writer
author
Relações
Barthelme, Frederick (brother)
Barthelme, Steven (brother)
Organizações
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1978)

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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 outras críticas | 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 outras críticas | 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 outras críticas | 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 outras críticas | Jun 27, 2023 |

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Obras
71
Also by
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Membros
7,046
Popularidade
#3,477
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
105
ISBN
154
Línguas
12
Marcado como favorito
60

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