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Donald Barthelme

( American writer)

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Biography Donald Barthelme
Barthelme, Donald (Barthelme, Donald) (1931-1989), American writer. Bold experimenter, the brightest representative of the 'black comedy' - neoavangardistskogo trends in contemporary American prose.
Born April 7, 1931 in Philadelphia. He studied at the University of Houston. In the 1950's was the director of an art museum in Houston. Subsequently worked as editor of the literary arts magazine Lokeyshn '. For works Barthelme most important vehicle assembly, and had an influence on the choice of topics, and especially the art form: the fragmentation Barthelme considered a defining feature of contemporary art. Among them written - novels "Snow White" (Snow White, 1967), "Dead Father" (Dead Father, 1975) and "Paradise" (Paradise, 1986), collections of short stories "Come back, Dr. Caligari" (Come Back Dr. Caligari, . 1964), . "Acts untold, . things are impossible "(Unspeakable Practices, . Unnatural Acts, . 1968), . "Urban Life" (City Life, . 1970), . "Sadness" (Sadness, . 1972), . "Great Days" (Great Days, . 1979), . "Sixty Stories" (Sixty Stories, . 1982), . "Way in the night to many distant cities" (Overnight to Many Distant Cities, . 1983), . "Forty Stories" (Forty Stories, . 1987); book parody "Forbidden pleasures" (Guilty Pleasures, . 1974),
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Barthelme does not pay serious attention to the plot, characters or themes. It creates a solid form, which is enclosed in a game started, inventive and self-sufficient. In his best stories, "The Angels", "brain injury", "Golden rain", "Daumier, he, in fact, radically changing the notion that such a story. The text includes drawings, 'sermons', describing various kinds of objects from the area mascovoy culture. Posthumously in 1992 published his latest book, "The King" (The King) - about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, was in the atomic century.


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