Barthelme, Donald
Overview
| Works: | 231 works in 1,052 publications in 16 languages and 37,856 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Experimental fiction Short stories Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Literature Arthurian romances Interviews Fantasy fiction Juvenile works Short stories |
| Roles: | Author, zxx, Author of introduction, Creator, Librettist, Other |
| Classifications: | PS3552.A76, 813.54 |
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Most widely held works about
Donald Barthelme
- Donald Barthelme : the genesis of a cool sound by Helen Moore Barthelme( )
- City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970 by Tony Tanner( Book )
- The new fiction; interviews with innovative American writers by Joe David Bellamy( Book )
- Donald Barthelme by Lois G Gordon( Book )
- In the singer's temple : prose fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski by Jack Hicks( Book )
- Fabulation and metafiction by Robert Scholes( Book )
- Literary disruptions : the making of a post-contemporary American fiction by Jerome Klinkowitz( Book )
- Dissident postmodernists : Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon by Paul Maltby( Book )
- Donald Barthelme : a study of the short fiction by Barbara L Roe( Book )
- Hiding man : a biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty( Book )
- Not-knowing : the essays and interviews of Donald Barthelme by Donald Barthelme( Book )
- Donald Barthelme's fiction : the ironist saved from drowning by Charles Molesworth( Book )
- The metafictional muse : the works of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William H. Gass by Larry McCaffery( Book )
- Donald Barthelme by Maurice Couturier( Book )
- Donald Barthelme : an exhibition by Jerome Klinkowitz( Book )
- The shape of art in the short stories of Donald Barthelme by Wayne B Stengel( Book )
- Victims, textual strategies in recent American fiction by Paul Bruss( Book )
- Understanding Donald Barthelme by Stanley Trachtenberg( Book )
- Critical essays on Donald Barthelme( Book )
- Mole notes by Michael Benedikt( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Donald Barthelme
Sixty stories by
Donald Barthelme(
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69 editions published between 1980 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,792 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Margins; A Shower of Gold; Me and Miss Mandible; For I'm the Boy; Will You Tell Me?; The Balloon; The President; Game; Alice; Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning; Report; The Dolt; See the Moon?; The Indian Uprising; Views of My Father Weeping; Paraguay; On Angels; The Phantom of the Opera's Friend; City Life; Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel; The Falling Dog; The Policemen's Ball; The Glass Mountain; Critique de la Vie Quotidienne; The Sandman; Traumerei; The Rise of Capitalism; A City of Churches; Daumier; The Party; Eugenei Grandet; Nothing: A Preliminary Account; A Manual for Sons; At the End of the Mechanical Age; Rebecca; The Captured Woman; I Bought a Little City; the Sergeant; The School; The Great Hug; Our Work and Why We Do It; The Crisis; Cortes and Montezuma; The New Music; The Zombies; The King of Jazz; Morning; The Death of Edward Lear; The Abduction from the Seraglio; On the Steps of the Conservatory; The Leap; Aria; The Emerald; How I Write My Songs; The Farewell; The Emperor; Thailand; Heroes; Bishop; Grandmother's House
69 editions published between 1980 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,792 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Margins; A Shower of Gold; Me and Miss Mandible; For I'm the Boy; Will You Tell Me?; The Balloon; The President; Game; Alice; Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning; Report; The Dolt; See the Moon?; The Indian Uprising; Views of My Father Weeping; Paraguay; On Angels; The Phantom of the Opera's Friend; City Life; Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel; The Falling Dog; The Policemen's Ball; The Glass Mountain; Critique de la Vie Quotidienne; The Sandman; Traumerei; The Rise of Capitalism; A City of Churches; Daumier; The Party; Eugenei Grandet; Nothing: A Preliminary Account; A Manual for Sons; At the End of the Mechanical Age; Rebecca; The Captured Woman; I Bought a Little City; the Sergeant; The School; The Great Hug; Our Work and Why We Do It; The Crisis; Cortes and Montezuma; The New Music; The Zombies; The King of Jazz; Morning; The Death of Edward Lear; The Abduction from the Seraglio; On the Steps of the Conservatory; The Leap; Aria; The Emerald; How I Write My Songs; The Farewell; The Emperor; Thailand; Heroes; Bishop; Grandmother's House
The dead father by
Donald Barthelme(
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63 editions published between 1975 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 1,453 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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."
63 editions published between 1975 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 1,453 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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."
Snow White by
Donald Barthelme(
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107 editions published between 1965 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 1,365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Novel of the absurd, paraphrasing the familiar fairy tale. Modern setting
107 editions published between 1965 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 1,365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Novel of the absurd, paraphrasing the familiar fairy tale. Modern setting
City life by
Donald Barthelme(
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65 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 1,344 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Nouvelles extraites de deux recueils publiés en anglais sous les titres City life et Sadness, évoquant la vie citadine et son rythme chaotique, ses monstres et ses merveilles
65 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 1,344 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Nouvelles extraites de deux recueils publiés en anglais sous les titres City life et Sadness, évoquant la vie citadine et son rythme chaotique, ses monstres et ses merveilles
Forty stories by
Donald Barthelme(
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51 editions published between 1979 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,298 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Chablis -- On the deck -- The genius -- Opening -- Sindbad -- The explanation -- Concerning the bodyguard -- Rif -- The palace at four A.M. -- Jaws -- Conversations with Goethe -- Affection -- The new owner -- Paul Klee -- Terminus -- The educational experience -- Bluebeard -- Departures -- Visitors -- The wound -- At the Tolstoy Museum -- The flight of pigeons from the palace -- A few moments of sleeping and waking -- The temptation of St. Anthony -- Sentence -- Pepperoni -- Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby -- Lightning -- The catechist -- Porcupines at the university -- Sakrete -- Captain Blood -- 110 West Sixty-first Street -- The film -- Overnight to many distant cities -- Construction -- Letters to the editore -- Great days -- The baby -- January
51 editions published between 1979 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,298 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Chablis -- On the deck -- The genius -- Opening -- Sindbad -- The explanation -- Concerning the bodyguard -- Rif -- The palace at four A.M. -- Jaws -- Conversations with Goethe -- Affection -- The new owner -- Paul Klee -- Terminus -- The educational experience -- Bluebeard -- Departures -- Visitors -- The wound -- At the Tolstoy Museum -- The flight of pigeons from the palace -- A few moments of sleeping and waking -- The temptation of St. Anthony -- Sentence -- Pepperoni -- Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby -- Lightning -- The catechist -- Porcupines at the university -- Sakrete -- Captain Blood -- 110 West Sixty-first Street -- The film -- Overnight to many distant cities -- Construction -- Letters to the editore -- Great days -- The baby -- January
Sadness by
Donald Barthelme(
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36 editions published between 1972 and 1998 in 4 languages and held by 1,223 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Short stories, chiefly reprinted from the New Yorker
36 editions published between 1972 and 1998 in 4 languages and held by 1,223 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Short stories, chiefly reprinted from the New Yorker
Paradise by
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30 editions published between 1985 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Simon, a fifty-three-year-old Philadelphia architect, is given a year to do as he wishes. He lives in a bare apartment, thinking back on his life and work. A complex relationship develops when he becomes involved with three younger women
30 editions published between 1985 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Simon, a fifty-three-year-old Philadelphia architect, is given a year to do as he wishes. He lives in a bare apartment, thinking back on his life and work. A complex relationship develops when he becomes involved with three younger women
Amateurs by
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27 editions published between 1976 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,078 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
27 editions published between 1976 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,078 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Great days by
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25 editions published between 1970 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,040 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
25 editions published between 1970 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,040 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Guilty pleasures by
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26 editions published between 1974 and 1995 in English and Japanese and held by 1,013 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
26 editions published between 1974 and 1995 in English and Japanese and held by 1,013 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Unspeakable practices, unnatural acts by
Donald Barthelme(
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47 editions published between 1968 and 2004 in 7 languages and held by 961 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
47 editions published between 1968 and 2004 in 7 languages and held by 961 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The king by
Donald Barthelme(
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39 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 957 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Dunkirk has fallen, the Americans have not yet entered the war, and King Arthur and his Knights of the Table Round are hip-deep in the fighting. Churchill and the new chaps think they are running things. A re-telling of Le Morte d́ʹArthur. . . sublime comedy and dark romance."--Publisher's description
39 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 957 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Dunkirk has fallen, the Americans have not yet entered the war, and King Arthur and his Knights of the Table Round are hip-deep in the fighting. Churchill and the new chaps think they are running things. A re-telling of Le Morte d́ʹArthur. . . sublime comedy and dark romance."--Publisher's description
Come back, Dr. Caligari by
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38 editions published between 1944 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
14 stories displaying a Surrealist humor
38 editions published between 1944 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
14 stories displaying a Surrealist humor
Overnight to many distant cities by
Donald Barthelme(
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21 editions published between 1983 and 1991 in English and German and held by 835 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
" ... Donald Barthelme's new collection ... takes us from New York to Tokyo to Copenhagen to Barcelona to Paris to the Radiant City of Le Corbusier, balancing twelve of his widely celebrated short stories against an equal number of brief visionary texts, new in his work, that provide a lovely, haunting counterpoint"--From dust jacket
21 editions published between 1983 and 1991 in English and German and held by 835 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
" ... Donald Barthelme's new collection ... takes us from New York to Tokyo to Copenhagen to Barcelona to Paris to the Radiant City of Le Corbusier, balancing twelve of his widely celebrated short stories against an equal number of brief visionary texts, new in his work, that provide a lovely, haunting counterpoint"--From dust jacket
The teachings of Don B. : satires, parodies, fables, illustrated stories, and plays of Donald Barthelme by
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20 editions published between 1992 and 2008 in English and held by 639 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
20 editions published between 1992 and 2008 in English and held by 639 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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
Flying to America : 45 more stories by
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11 editions published between 2007 and 2018 in English and held by 549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Barthelme (1931-1989) was one of the great 20th-century American absurdists. The 45 stories in this collection include stories Barthelme himself excluded from his two major collections and little that went previously unpublished. Packed with whimsical facts, Emma Green Is 81, which was the lead story in Barthelme's first book, concerns the verbose narrator's testy desire that Emma continue to finance the Journal of Tension Reduction, of which he is the editor
11 editions published between 2007 and 2018 in English and held by 549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Barthelme (1931-1989) was one of the great 20th-century American absurdists. The 45 stories in this collection include stories Barthelme himself excluded from his two major collections and little that went previously unpublished. Packed with whimsical facts, Emma Green Is 81, which was the lead story in Barthelme's first book, concerns the verbose narrator's testy desire that Emma continue to finance the Journal of Tension Reduction, of which he is the editor
The slightly irregular fire engine; or, The hithering thithering djinn by
Donald Barthelme(
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7 editions published between 1971 and 2006 in English and held by 516 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Relates Mathilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings
7 editions published between 1971 and 2006 in English and held by 516 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Relates Mathilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings
The best American short stories, 1986(
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2 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 387 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Basil from her garden / Donald Barthelme -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Janus / Ann Beattie -- The convict / Janes Lee Burke -- Star food / Ethan Canin -- Gossip / Frank Conroy --Communist / Richard Ford -- Bad company / Tess Gallagher -- Today will be a quiet day / Amy Hempel -- Doe season / David Michael Kaplan -- Three thousand dollars / David Lipsky -- Sportsmen / Thomas McGuane -- All my relations / Christopher McIlroy -- Monsieur les deux chapeaux / Alice Munro
2 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 387 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Basil from her garden / Donald Barthelme -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Janus / Ann Beattie -- The convict / Janes Lee Burke -- Star food / Ethan Canin -- Gossip / Frank Conroy --Communist / Richard Ford -- Bad company / Tess Gallagher -- Today will be a quiet day / Amy Hempel -- Doe season / David Michael Kaplan -- Three thousand dollars / David Lipsky -- Sportsmen / Thomas McGuane -- All my relations / Christopher McIlroy -- Monsieur les deux chapeaux / Alice Munro
The best American short stories, 1977 : and the yearbook of the American short story by
Martha Foley(
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4 editions published between 1973 and 1975 in English and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes twenty short stories by some of the best American writers
4 editions published between 1973 and 1975 in English and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes twenty short stories by some of the best American writers
The Best American short stories, 1979(
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1 edition published in 1979 in English and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Short stories of 1979
1 edition published in 1979 in English and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Short stories of 1979
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Bartelʹmi, Donalʹd
Barthelme Donald
Barthelme, Donald, Jr.
Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme americký spisovatel
Donald Barthelme Amerikaans schrijver (1931-1989)
Donald Barthelme amerikanischer Schriftsteller
Donald Barthelme amerykański pisarz
Donald Barthelme écrivain américain
Donald Barthelme scrittore e giornalista statunitense
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Donalds Bartelms
Дональд Бартелмі
Дональд Бартельм
דונלד ברתלמי
دونالد بارتلمی
바셀미, 도날드 1931-1989
바셀미, 도널드 1931-1989
ドナルド・バーセルミ
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唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
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