Barthelme, Donald
Overview
| Works: | 146 works in 895 publications in 14 languages and 37,651 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Experimental fiction Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Short stories Literature Interviews Exhibition catalogs Musical settings Fantasy fiction War fiction |
| Roles: | Author, zxx, Author of introduction, Librettist |
| Classifications: | PS3552.A76, 813.54 |
Publication Timeline
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Most widely held works about
Donald 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 )
- In the singer's temple : prose fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski by Jack Hicks( Book )
- Donald Barthelme by Lois G Gordon( Book )
- Fabulation and metafiction by Robert Scholes( Book )
- Literary disruptions : the making of a post-contemporary American fiction by Jerome Klinkowitz( 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 )
- The American 1960's ; imaginative acts in a decade of change by Jerome Klinkowitz( Book )
- Donald Barthelme's fiction : the ironist saved from drowning by Charles Molesworth( Book )
- Donald Barthelme by Maurice Couturier( Book )
- The metafictional muse : the works of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William H. Gass by Larry McCaffery( Book )
- Dissident postmodernists : Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon by Paul Maltby( 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 )
- Donald Barthelme : the genesis of a cool sound by Helen Moore Barthelme( Book )
- Donald Barthelme : an exhibition by Jerome Klinkowitz( Book )
- Postmodernism( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Donald Barthelme
Sixty stories by
Donald Barthelme(
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61 editions published between 1981 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,785 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
61 editions published between 1981 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,785 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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57 editions published between 1975 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 1,397 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."
57 editions published between 1975 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 1,397 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."
City life by
Donald Barthelme(
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62 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 1,367 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
62 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 1,367 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
Snow White by
Donald Barthelme(
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98 editions published between 1965 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 1,347 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Novel of the absurd, paraphrasing the familiar fairy tale. Modern setting
98 editions published between 1965 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 1,347 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Novel of the absurd, paraphrasing the familiar fairy tale. Modern setting
Forty stories by
Donald Barthelme(
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49 editions published between 1979 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 1,310 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A random universe in which time, reality, meaning and language are turned exuberantly upside-down
49 editions published between 1979 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 1,310 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A random universe in which time, reality, meaning and language are turned exuberantly upside-down
Sadness by
Donald Barthelme(
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34 editions published between 1972 and 1998 in 4 languages and held by 1,245 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
34 editions published between 1972 and 1998 in 4 languages and held by 1,245 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Paradise by
Donald Barthelme(
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27 editions published between 1985 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 1,110 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
27 editions published between 1985 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 1,110 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
Donald Barthelme(
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27 editions published between 1976 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,090 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
27 editions published between 1976 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,090 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Great days by
Donald Barthelme(
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20 editions published between 1978 and 1980 in English and held by 1,054 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
20 editions published between 1978 and 1980 in English and held by 1,054 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Guilty pleasures by
Donald Barthelme(
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24 editions published between 1974 and 1995 in English and Japanese and held by 1,023 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
24 editions published between 1974 and 1995 in English and Japanese and held by 1,023 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The king by
Donald Barthelme(
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36 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 983 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
36 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 983 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
Unspeakable practices, unnatural acts by
Donald Barthelme(
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45 editions published between 1968 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 975 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
45 editions published between 1968 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 975 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Come back, Dr. Caligari by
Donald Barthelme(
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45 editions published between 1944 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 957 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
45 editions published between 1944 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 957 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Overnight to many distant cities by
Donald Barthelme(
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20 editions published between 1983 and 1991 in English and German and held by 858 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
20 editions published between 1983 and 1991 in English and German and held by 858 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
Donald Barthelme(
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15 editions published between 1992 and 2008 in English and held by 621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
15 editions published between 1992 and 2008 in English and held by 621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The slightly irregular fire engine; or, The hithering thithering djinn by
Donald Barthelme(
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6 editions published between 1971 and 2006 in English and held by 552 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
6 editions published between 1971 and 2006 in English and held by 552 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
Flying to America : 45 more stories by
Donald Barthelme(
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9 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 467 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
9 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 467 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
Robert Rauschenberg : work from four series, a sesquicentennial exhibition by
Robert Rauschenberg(
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5 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Brion ; Sindbad ; Exiles by
Harold Meltzer(
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3 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 247 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 247 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The best American short stories 1973 : & the yearbook of the American short story(
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2 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes twenty short stories by some of the best American writers
2 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes twenty short stories by some of the best American writers
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Related Identities
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Barth, John Author of introduction
- Brautigan, Richard
- Kosinski, Jerzy 1933-1991
- Hawkes, John 1925-1998
- Herzinger, Kim A. 1946- Other Editor
- Barthelme, Helen Moore 1927-
- Gass, William H. 1924-
- Kesey, Ken
- Klinkowitz, Jerome Author
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Associated Subjects
American fiction Apartment houses Architects Authors, American Barth, John Barth, John, Barthelme, Donald Borges, Jorge Luis, Brautigan, Richard Burroughs, William S., Conroy, Frank, Coover, Robert Ellison, Ralph Experimental fiction Experimental fiction, American Fatherhood Fathers and sons Fathers--Death Fiction--Authorship Fiction--Technique Gaddis, William, Gaines, Ernest J., Gass, William H., Hawkes, John, Heller, Joseph Kesey, Ken Kosinski, Jerzy, Mailer, Norman Malamud, Bernard Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, New York (State)--New York Oates, Joyce Carol, Parody Percy, Walker, Piercy, Marge Plath, Sylvia Political satire Postmodernism (Literature) Purdy, James Pynchon, Thomas Roommates Roth, Philip Runaway husbands Short stories, American Sontag, Susan, United States Updike, John Vonnegut, Kurt Wolfe, Thomas, Young women
Alternative Names
Bartelʹmi, Donalʹd
Barthelme Donald
Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme Amerikaans schrijver (1931-1989)
Donald Barthelme amerikanischer Schriftsteller
Donald Barthelme amerykański pisarz
Donald Barthelme Écrivain américain
Donald Barthelme scrittore e giornalista statunitense
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
バーセルミ, ドナルド
唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
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