The King

As World War II rages, King Arthur wages war with the Nazis, Ezra Pound broadcasts anti-Semitic radio messages, and, back home, Launcelot and Guinevere practice adultery on each other

Literature & Fiction

Donald BARTHELME

Literary

Harper&Row

This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected.

Sixty Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin??Books

'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.' Donald Barthelme is a puckish player with language, a writer of short but endlessly rewarding comic gems, a thinker and an experimenter. In these nine short stories, whether writing about a hairy, donkeyish king or a touching, private gesture of city-sized proportions, his is a surreal, deadpan genius. This book includes "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby", "The Glass Mountain", "I Bought a Little City", "The Palace at Four A.M.", "Chablis", "The School", "Margins", "Game", and "The Balloon".

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin books, limited

Sadness

CAPE.

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

History & Criticism

JONATHAN CAPE.

Amateurs

Contemporary

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

“There is nothing unusual about the foot, except that it is seven meters high.” Nineteen people are dragging, by means of a cable, an immense carcass through the countryside. The carcass is that of the Dead Father, a half-dead, half-alive, part-mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself, although he is, effectively, dead. Thomas, Julie, Edmund, Emma, and the others variously insult, placate, cater to, and defend the Dead Father as the procession moves through the country of the Wends, the territory of the Great Father Serpent, and a variety of encounters and explorations toward its mysterious goal.In the austere, extraordinary prose that strongly influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered in The Dead Father a glimpse into his unique fictional universe: a many-shaded landscape of first and last things, striking, comic, manic, inevitable.

The Dead Father

His first book of non-fiction which consists of parodies, political satire, and fables.

Guilty Pleasures

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

183 pages. Hardcover, bound in purple cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Text in English.

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."

The Dead Father (FSG Classics)

Donald Antrim

United States

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The King

Sixty Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

Sadness

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

Amateurs

The Dead Father

Guilty Pleasures

Sadness

The Dead Father (FSG Classics)