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

Barthelme, Donald

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ISBN 10: 0679409831 ISBN 13: 9780679409830

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1997

Riassunto

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nonfiction includes his uncollected essays--some of them from The New Yorker magazine--as well as several previously unpublished interviews, encompassing his views on art, film, and city life.

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L'autore:

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.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

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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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679409831
• ISBN 13: 9780679409830
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 332
• Redattore: Herzinger Kim