Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme - Hardcover

Barthelme, Donald

 
9780679409830: Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679409831 ISBN 13: 9780679409830
Verlag: Random House Inc, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

The second collection of the late writer's nonfiction includes his uncollected essays--some of them from The New Yorker magazine--as well as several previously unpublished interviews, encompassing his views on art, film, and city life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The late Donald Barthelme was a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, winner of a National Book Award, a director of PEN and the Authors Guild, and a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His sixteen books--including Snow White, The Dead Father, and City Life--substantially redefined American short fiction for our time.

About the Editor:
Kim Herzinger teaches at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of books and articles on D.H. Lawrence, modern and contemporary literature, Sherlock Holmes, and baseball, and is now at work on a cultural biography of Donald Barthelme.

Aus dem Klappentext

elme's premature death at the age of fifty-eight brought to an end one of the most provocative careers in the history of American literature. Groundbreaking works such as Come Back, Dr. Caligari; The Dead Father; Snow White; Great Days; Overnight to Many Distant Cities; Guilty Pleasures; and his two short-fiction collections, Forty Stories and Sixty Stories, have earned him a place among the most influential and imitated authors of the last half-century. With his marvelously strange and darkly ironic vision of the world, his wizard satire and deadpan humor, Barthelme spoke of and for our time like no one else. He spoke of our national obsessions and weirdnesses, our unspeakable practices and unnatural acts, in what is for many the distinctive voice of postmodern America.

Not-Knowing is the second posthumous collection of Donald Barthelme's work. Like The Teachings of Don B. (1992), it brings together shorter works now almost impossible to come by. While the first volume feature

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Verlag
Random House Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679409831
ISBN 13 
9780679409830
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
332
Herausgeber
Herzinger Kim
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