Imatge de l'autor

Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)

Autor/a de Sixty Stories

71+ obres 7,046 Membres 105 Ressenyes 60 preferits

Sobre l'autor

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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries

Obres de Donald Barthelme

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

Obres associades

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 1,552 exemplars
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Col·laborador — 1,130 exemplars
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Col·laborador — 706 exemplars
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Col·laborador — 461 exemplars
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Col·laborador — 368 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993) — Col·laborador — 365 exemplars
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (1984) — Col·laborador — 362 exemplars
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Col·laborador — 354 exemplars
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Col·laborador — 339 exemplars
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Col·laborador — 324 exemplars
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Col·laborador — 291 exemplars
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Col·laborador — 282 exemplars
Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Col·laborador — 277 exemplars
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Col·laborador — 267 exemplars
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Col·laborador — 213 exemplars
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Col·laborador — 211 exemplars
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Col·laborador — 207 exemplars
Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker (1997) — Col·laborador — 186 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (1990) — Col·laborador — 160 exemplars
SF12 (1968) — Col·laborador — 136 exemplars
11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1966) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Col·laborador — 111 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1986 (1986) — Col·laborador — 97 exemplars
American Short Stories (1976) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions95 exemplars
Best SF: 1971 (1972) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
Science Fiction: The Future (1971) — Col·laborador — 84 exemplars
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
The Best American Essays 1986 (1986) — Col·laborador — 70 exemplars
Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (2003) — Col·laborador — 51 exemplars
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology (1975) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars
Granta 1: New American Writing (1979) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1980 (1980) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories (1990) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination (1984) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
Mortal Echoes: Encounters With the End (2018) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1975 (1975) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the 70's (1973) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Bibliothek Suhrkamp. Ein Lesebuch, Klassiker der Moderne (1989) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Modern Fiction About Schoolteaching: An Anthology (1995) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
New World Writing 20 (1962) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Fiction, Volume 1, Number 1 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Nom normalitzat
Barthelme, Donald
Data de naixement
1931-04-07
Data de defunció
1989-07-23
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Lloc de defunció
Houston, Texas, USA
Llocs de residència
New York, New York, USA
Educació
University of Houston
Professions
curator (Houston Museum of Contemporary Art)
writer
author
Relacions
Barthelme, Frederick (brother)
Barthelme, Steven (brother)
Organitzacions
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1978)
Biografia breu
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 | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | 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 | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | 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 | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | 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 | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Jun 27, 2023 |

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Obres
71
També de
59
Membres
7,046
Popularitat
#3,477
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
105
ISBN
154
Llengües
12
Preferit
60

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