Donald Barthelme
Paperback | Pages: 451 pages Rating: 4.2 | 5481 Users | 329 Reviews
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| Title | : | Sixty Stories |
| Author | : | Donald Barthelme |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 451 pages |
| Published | : | April 7th 2005 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published September 14th 1981) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Literature. American |
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With these audacious and murderous witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupation of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are 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 Donald's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.Particularize Books In Favor Of Sixty Stories
| Original Title: | Sixty Stories |
| ISBN: | 0141180935 (ISBN13: 9780141180939) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1982), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1981) |
Rating Regarding Books Sixty Stories
Ratings: 4.2 From 5481 Users | 329 ReviewsPiece Regarding Books Sixty Stories
This is the only book I've yet read by this author, a few years ago, but I remember thinking that it was overall an enjoyable collection of stories. There is another collection by him called Forty Stories which I may get one day, and he did a few novels I think, but I haven't a clue what they are like. I think I saw this book on amazon and was drawn to it by the psychedelic front cover, and then when I read the blurb about it, I thought I'd give it a go, reckoning a book with sixty stories in itI spent this past summer with Barthelmes Sixty Stories never far from my side as my most recent dashboard book. The stories contained in this hilarious and bizarre collection are rarely more than 5-10pgs in length, making them a perfect companion to turn to whenever you find a few spare moments where you want to simple get-in-and-get-out while still walking away with a headful of ideas to chew on. The stories are as varied as the horizon viewed through a travelling car, often as pretty as the
سه داستان در حد اعلا و پنج ستاره بود باقیش مزخرف.
Sometimes I feel like a huge misfit writing fiction. I have some language-level obsession that doesn't always translate very well into "shit happening," which, let's face it, is crucial to a story. I think I always put more elbow grease into sentences and images, and particular cadences that please me. All of which is my roundabout way of praising Don Barthelme for writing stories that hit the aforementioned balls out of the park. Take heart, poets attempting to write fiction. The stories in
I was half way through the book when I realized that these stories serve as a kind of Rorschach Test, always in movement, always mind-boggling, and forever inspiring. Some of the "dialogues" can seem overly long and pedantic, but when it comes to Barthelme, can there be such terms? They seem to be much of the point. As an earlier review mentioned, these short pieces have the tendency to rip your mind to shreds, without any hope for recovery throughout. Many stories in this collection bear the
داستانهاش بهشدت به سلیقه من نزدیکه.داستان هایی با اتفاقاتی عجیب و که خیلی طبیعی و معمولی بیان میشن داستانهایی که توش هرچیزی رو ممکنه پیداکنی داستانهایی با کلی ساختارشکنی و کارای جدید و جالب و خلاق که نمیشه حتا به بعضیاش گفت داستان!بعضی از داستانهاش ممکنه زیاد دوستداشتنی نباشن و به این علت ۵ ستاره ندادم. ولی بعضی داستانهاش به شدت محشرن و هزارتا ستاره هم براشون کمه.ممکنه با خوندنش آدم ایده بگیره برای نوشتن. خلاق نوشتن.جالبیش اینه که داستانهایی که طنز قویای دارن صرفن طنز نیستن و توش چیزهای مختلف رو
For the past couple of years, I have kept word documents that keep track of the individual short stories or long essays I read. I say to myself I do this so I can keep track of what I read and recognize writers who've I encountered before. While this is true, the main reason I keep these lists is because I am a bit compulsive when it comes to keeping track of unnecessary things. Seriously, I have never been able to get myself to keep up with my check balance book but my music on my external hard
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