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	Pynchon - Essays: Introduction to Barthelme
		Barthelme, perhaps as a species of anarchist curse, just calls him "the President." The rage behind it, provoked by the ongoing spectacle of national politics in the U.S. as presided over by anybody, is natural enough if you look at the regimes Barthelme happened to be working under.
		Barthelme's timing in this regard was flawless, though unfortunately he was prevented from becoming a worldclass curmudgeon on the order of, say, Ambrose Bierce, by the stubborn counter-rhythms of what kept on being a hopeful and unbitter heart.
		Barthelme's was a specifically urban melancholy, related to that look of immunity to joy or even surprise seen in the faces of cab drivers, bartenders, street dealers, city editors, a wearily taken vow to persist beneath the burdens of the day and the terrors of the night.
	www.themodernword.com /pynchon/pynchon_essays_barthelme.html (1782 words)

	Amazon.de: Sixty Stories: English Books: Donald Barthelme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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.
		Donald Barthelme is probably the inimitable writer of the twentieth century and this collection is the best way to introduce yourself to his works.
		Donald Barthelme has been unfairly neglected by the publishing industry; fortunately, 60 Stories is a fantastic representation of his talents (which are just innumerable, dammit).
	www.amazon.de /Sixty-Stories-Donald-Barthelme/dp/0140153004 (1363 words)

	Donald Barthelme Forum Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Donald Barthelme, Jr., short story writer, novelist, editor, journalist, and teacher, was born in Philadelphia on April 7, 1931.
		Barthelme was married four times; he and his second wife, Birgit had a daughter, Anne Katherine.
		Barthelme died of throat cancer in 1989 at the age of 58.
	info.lib.uh.edu /sca/collections/faids/html/barthelm.html (1027 words)

	Scriptorium - Donald Barthelme
		Barthelme's genius was to tap the postmodern welter of confused values and random, arbitrary emanations, billions of ethically-indistinguishable voices each shouting its own discourse like a wild-eyed junkyard evangelist, and whip it all up into a poignant, harmonious fugue.
		Donald Barthelme was born in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but moved to Houston, Texas at the age of two, where he would remain (excepting a two-year stint in the US army) until moving to New York to become a writer in the early 60s.
		Images of Barthelme and many of his book-covers are available at David Keffer's Donald Barthelme Collection.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/barthelme.html (2300 words)

	Amazon.ca: Forty Stories: Books: Donald Barthelme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.
		Donald Barthelme is one of the very few masters of the short short story.
		Barthelme defies all imitators; his stories continue to stand as one-of-a-kind monuments, written in a truly singular voice by a truly singular talent, to urban life in the late 20th century.
	www.amazon.ca /Forty-Stories-Donald-Barthelme/dp/0399132996 (1412 words)

	Fiction: Donald Barthelme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) was born in Philadelphia and raised in Texas, where his father was a prominent architect.
		Barthelme published two novels, Snow White (1967) and The Dead Father (1975), and left a third novel, The King, ready for publication in 1992 after his death from cancer.
		Barthelme compared his style of writing short fiction to that of collage, saying that "the principle of collage is the central principle of all art in the twentieth century."
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/barthelme.htm (331 words)

	Donald Barthelme Literary Papers
		Donald Barthelme was born in Philadelphia in 1931 to parents Donald Barthelme Sr.
		Barthelme rarely kept early drafts of his work, so many of these stories are in a finished or nearly finished stage and show minimal editing by the author.
		Barthelme was a member of the writers' association PEN American Center, serving as its vice president for the period 1977-1979.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uhsc/00062/hsc-00062.html (2000 words)

	Barthelme_Donald_pa
		Donald Barthelme Jr., short story writer, novelist, editor, journalist, and teacher, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 7, 1931 to Donald and Helen Barthelme.
		Donald Barthelme felt his genealogical decent from a select few traditional writers: Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shady, the stories of Heinrich von Kleist, Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuhet and Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds.
		Donald Barthelme was an original and influential American writer of short fiction.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/barthelme_donald_pa.htm (1003 words)

	Donald Barthelme: A Study of the Short Fiction. - book reviews Studies in Short Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Gore Vidal, for instance, indicted Barthelme along with two other conspirators in the death of the novel, Barthes and Barth, as "the French pox." Nevertheless, it was in the reviews that Barthelme's work was made, for good or ill, the centerpiece of postmodernism.
		Barthelme's garish posturing in his New Yorker pieces in the 1960s are notorious in this regard, annoyingly engaging the reader to confront his/her conditioned expectations.
		Barthelme's fiction proves that although art may not be able to transcend its own materials and limits, it can accommodate itself to this condition by incorporating the devaluation of the word, as George Steiner called it, into its very cloth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_n2_v30/ai_14081629 (756 words)

	Donald Barthelme Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Donald Barthelme has achieved his present eminence as one of the leading popular innovators in American fiction through the pages of the New Yorker magazine, where he began publishing in 1963.
		Barthelme's experiments with language reach their peak in his collection City Life (1970), where the story "Bone Bubbles" plays with almost totally meaningless juxtapositions, while its companion,"Sentence," merely speaks about itself as its words make their way across and down the page.
		The extensive popularity Barthelme enjoys, far beyond the limited audience his fellow innovationists--Ronald Sukenick, Gilbert Sorrentino, and even Ishmael Reed--share, is attributable to the ability of his fiction to operate as pure artifice, while at the same time displaying recognizable characters and situations.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/donald-barthelme-dlb (848 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Donald Barthelme
		Barthelme makes brilliant comic use of anachronism to show that war is center stage in the theater of human absurdity and cruelty.
		The son of an avant-garde architect‚ Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) wrote a series of novels and story collections that earned him a wide reputation as one of the most innovative and important voices in American literature.
		His style was‚ in the words of Robert Coover‚ “precise‚ urbane‚ ironic‚ rivetingly succinct‚ accumulative in its comical and often surreal juxtapositions.” Barthelme was a master of turning his spare‚ surprising sentences to the frail absurdity of the modern world as he saw it.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/barthelme.html (646 words)

	Donald Barthelme, Sr. Architectural Papers, 1924-1997
		Donald (1931–1989) achieved fame as a writer and novelist and from 1980 to 1989 was a professor at the University of Houston, where he helped establish the reputation of the University’s acclaimed Creative Writing Program.
		Barthelme served as an architecture professor at the University of Houston from 1946 to 1958 and from 1963 to 1973.
		Barthelme was William Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture and Chairman of the Architecture Department at Rice University from February 1959 to May 1961.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uhsc/00040/hsc-00040.html (2693 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Donald Barthelme
		Barthelme had the good fortune to be born of an avant-garde architect Donald and a sensitive, imaginative and literary mother, Helen Bechtold.
		Young Barthelme was reared and educated in a family that revered the avant-garde in architecture, art, and nearly all media.
		Barthelme the activist’s keen penetration does suggest avenues of improvement for the human condition such as starting with being aware, a major thrust of many of his writings.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=280 (561 words)

	Engl 4300: Reading Donald Barthelme
		Barthelme's stories often draw on earlier literary forms, such as fairy tales ("The Glass Mountain") or novels and stories from previous literary eras ("Eugenie Grandet," "The Phantom of the Opera's Friend"); he also parodies pop culture ("The Joker's Greatest Triumph," a story about Batman, is my favorite example).
		One of the disorienting features of Donald Barthelme's story is that it skims rapidly over the surface of emotional and sexual relationships that we are accustomed to seeing treated in fiction with detailed deliberation....
		Barthelme, who died in 1989, was one of the key figures in American postmodern fiction, whose stories continually tested the limits of fictional form.
	core.ecu.edu /engl/whisnantl/4300/barthelme.htm (1073 words)

	PAL: Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
		Donald Barthelme: a comprehensive bibliography and annotated secondary checklist.
		Morace, Robert A. "Donald Barthelme's Snow White: The Novel, the Critics, and the Culture." 164-72.
		"Donald Barthelme and the Death of Fiction." 70-84.
	web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/barthelme.html (572 words)

	The New York Times > Books > Donald Barthelme Is Dead at 58; A Short-Story Writer and Novelist
		Barthelme was born in Philadelphia on April 7, 1931.
		Barthelme described New York City in the same terms as his own work, ''as a collage, as opposed to a tribal village in which all the huts are the same hut, duplicated.
		Barthelme is survived by two daughters, Anne, of San Diego, Calif., and Katherine, of Houston; his parents, Donald Sr.
	www.nytimes.com /1989/07/24/books/barthelme-obit.html (999 words)

	Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Barthelme's fiction is, finally, positive--even optimistic--but first readings may not give that impression.
		The teacher will have to be subtle in not claiming that "we all" think the way Barthelme does, or the legions of all-American conservatives will be on his/her doorstep; but the fiction itself can do a great deal to start students examining their own social attitudes.
		Barthelme is given as a kind of example of metafiction, which flourished in the 1970s and 1980s.
	www.hmco.com /college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/barthelm.html (392 words)

	Donald Barthelme
		His father was an architect of 'modern' school of Mies van der Rohe -"something of an anomaly in Texas in the thirties," Barthelme observed.
		Barthelme authored fourteen books, including novels, essays and the short story collections, Forty Stories [1987], Overnight to Many Distant Cities [1983], Sixty Stories [1982], City Life [1970], Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts [1968], and Come Back, Dr. Caligari [1964].
		The voice of pop sings in sweet mysterious harmony with the voice of traditional philosophical and literary culture, and at moments intuitions of beatitude intrude suddenly on the excruciations of urban life.
	www.reaaward.org /html/donald_barthelme.html (273 words)

	Sixty Stories - Donald Barthelme - Penguin Group (USA)
		With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low.
		Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts.
		Like all of Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142437391,00.html (180 words)

	Barthelme's Biography
		Barthelme, she claimed, "rejects traditional chronology, plot, character, time, space, grammar, syntax, metaphor, and simile, as well as the traditional distinctions between fact and fiction.
		Bizarre incidents abound in Barthelme's world: a thirty-five year old man is placed by some inexplicable error in a sixth-grade class, a woman attempts to open a car rental agency in a city whose every building is a church, the nonsense poet Edward Lear invites friends to witness his death.
		Following Barthelme's death in 1989, The King, a novel, and The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories and Plays of Donald Barthelme, a collection, were published.
	www.utdallas.edu /~aargyros/donald_barthelme_biography.htm (1139 words)

	Brian Kiteley answers questions about Donald Barthelme
		Donald Barthelme once said that selecting fathers is part of the process of becoming a writer, of being born as a writer.
		Barthelme struck me as a very self-assured man who nevertheless did not seem to believe his method of fiction-making was the be-all and end-all of writing stories.
		I understand Barthelme sometimes edited his students’ work and that more often than not this editing consisted in cutting out portions of it.
	www.du.edu /~bkiteley/barthelme.htm (1914 words)

	jessamyn.com: donald barthelme : "Views of My Father Weeping" critique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Although some critics have faulted Barthelme for failing to convey in his fiction any sense of morality or order, others have countered that---by decrying the creative vacuum of modern life in an innovative, insightful way---he does take a moral stance.
		Barthelme challenges the concept of traditional realism, because he believes it forces on the reader a false sense of order.
		In the segments narrated in the style of a nineteenth-century novel, the son adopts the cool, detached tone of a detective as he attempts to uncover the facts of his father's death.
	www.eskimo.com /~jessamyn/barth/weepingarticle.html (688 words)

	AllRefer.com - Donald Barthelme (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Donald Barthelme[bAr´thelm] Pronunciation Key, 1931–89, American writer, b.
		In his short stories and novels, Barthelme describes a world so unreal that traditional modes of fiction can no longer encompass it.
		Barthelme's works include the novels Snow White (1967) and The Dead Father (1985); the short-story collections Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968), City Life (1970), Sadness (1972), and Great Days (1979); and a collection of nonfiction pieces, Guilty Pleasures (1974).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Barthelm.html (215 words)

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		Mark Jay Mirsky is the editor of Fiction, an international magazine of prose that he founded with Donald Barthelme, Max and Marianne Frisch, and others in 1972.
		John Barth, a "writer's writer," was a central figure among the anti-realist or comico-realist American fiction writers of the 1960s-1970s (others are William H. Gass, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover).
		Just as modern painters had to reinvent painting because of the discovery of photography (Donald Barthelme once mentioned parenthetically), so modern and postmodern writers have had to reinvent writing because of the discovery of film.
	lycos.com /info/donald-barthelme.html (643 words)

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