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The Dead Father
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."
Down Below
A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figures In 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the mirror of the earth”—...
Plantes d'interior
La nova edició d'un llibre de relats imprescindible A Plantes d'interior trobareu diverses menes de gegants, festes que no s'acaben, GRANS ESPERANCES BLANQUES, maneres ideals de no escriure res sobre Katherine Mansfield, contes sobre els problemes de sentir-se exòtic, sobre telesèries visionàries, sobre el preu de posar un preu, sobre la impossibilitat de no trair certes coses, sobre la vida en una casa de mobles, sobre el lacat japonès, les tesis carnívores, els dibuixos en planta, les plantes de companyia i sobre aquesta cosa d'arribar a casa i trobar-la massa plena, o massa buida, o massa igual, o massa canviada i voler ser, de cop, a qualsevol altra banda. Aquesta nova edició, revisada per l'autor i amb un pròleg escrit per a l'ocasió posa al dia un llibre cabdal en l'obra de Borja Bagunyà. Publicat originalment el 2011, a Plantes d'interior enfila tretze narracions d'una imaginació, exuberància d'estil i virtuosisme tècnic sense límits. Vivificadores i desafiants, constitueixen un llibre de relats imprescindible, ple de joc i intel·ligència a cada ratlla.
Overnight to Many Distant Cities
" ... 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.
Sixty Stories
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.
The Teachings of Don B.
This overflowing volume of previously uncollected--and utterly uncategorizable--writings by the late Donald Barthelme is a time bomb disguised as a literary last testament. Barthelme gives us an imaginary episode of BATMAN hilariously slowed down to soap-opera speed; an account of a baseball game played by T.S. Eliot and Willem "Big Bill" de Kooning; and an outlandishly illustrated chronicle of a scientific expedition in quest of God. 109 illustrations throughout.
Critifiction
This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time. The author has coined the term Surfiction for this New Fiction. Written in an informal, provocative style, by an internationally known practitioner, these essays examine the cultural, social, and political conditions that forced serious writers to reflect (often within the work itself) on the act of writing fiction in the modern world. The entire book can be read as a manifesto for the present and future of the new fiction. This book is the first in the SUNY series in Postmodern Culture, edited by Joseph Natoli.
The Metafictional Muse
McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass. The term "metafiction" here refers to a strain in American writing where the self-concious approach to the art of fiction-making is a commentary on the nature of meaning itself.
