Donald Barthelme

Flying to America: 45 More Stories

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Barthleme may have been radical in his time, but he's perfectly suited to our own. -Houston ChronicleOne of the most influential and inventive writers of the twentieth century, Donald Barthelme wrote novels, short stories, parodies, plays, satires, fables, and essays that captured the good, the bad, but most of all the strange of America. With Barthelme, strange may come both in the tale and in the form, but however it appears, Barthelme has tooled the absurd so that is rings true. As observed by Thomas Pynchon (who coined the term Barthelmismo), Barthelme's work conveys something of the clarity and sweep, the intensity of emotion, the transc… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Herzinger, Kim (Ausw.) / Herzinger, Kim (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-61902-999-6
EAN: 9781619029996
Produktnummer: 23730539
Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.8 cm 340 g
Gewicht: 340

Über den Autor

DONALD BARTHELME was a writer and critic, a National Book Award recipient, a director of PEN and the Authors Guild, a member of the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters, and a founder of the renowned University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He was the author of more than fifteen published books, including City Life, one of Time's Best Books of the Year, and Sixty Stories, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Even after his death in 1989, Barthelme's contributions to the world of American letters remain unparalleled. KIM HERZINGER is a critic who writes on minimalism and other contemporary literary phenomena, a Pushcart Prize-winning writer of fiction, and the editor of two other Donald Barthelme collections, Not-Knowing and The Teachings of Don B. He taught at the University of Southern Mississippi and now owns and operates Left Bank Books in New York City.