Donald Barthelme

The Glass Mountain

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A glass mountain sits in the middle of a city and at the top sits a 'beautiful, enchanted symbol'. Seeking to disenchant it, the narrator must climb the mountain. Confronted by the jeers of acquaintances, the bodies of previous climbers and the claws of a guarding eagle he, slowly, begins to ascend. In true postmodernist form, subject and purpose collide as Donald Barthelme uses one-hundred fragmented statements to destabilise a symbol of his own - literature's conventional forms and practices. With a quest, a princess and an array of knights, Barthelme subverts that most traditional of genres, the fairy-tale; irony, absurdity, and playful se… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7181-9626-4
EAN: 9780718196264
Produktnummer: 17836975
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 46 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 239 KB

Über den Autor

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) published twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning children's book. A playful, postmodernist writer he wrote stories, satires, parodies and other formal experiments that challenged the forms and subjects of literature before him. He was a regular contributor to the New Yorker and taught creative writing at the University of Houston. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Award and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, among others.