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 t...
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.
And they said, is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life. Then they said, but isn't death, considered such a fundamental datum, the means by which the taken-for-granted mundanity of the everyday may be transcended in the direction of-- (查看原文)
"Sindbad" is a classical text of Postmodernism. There are two protagonists in this novel: one is the sailor Sindbad who has an abundant experience of romantic sailing adventures; the other one is the American teacher "I" in 80s."I" am poor and in rags that ...
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0 有用 独自退场 2013-06-01 21:50:19
原来我10年就标记过barthelme，果然有的人很早前就已经相识。那时候我说“唐纳德，巴特尔梅，《亡父》（the dead father），我喜欢翻译的这个名字，带着一股浓烈的宿命色彩，我喜欢别人这样不可抗拒的命运。”
2 有用 Shelly Wu 2015-06-16 14:39:24
第一篇Edward 和 Carl的对话就有点叛逆味道~两人你来我往的挺有意思~尤其是Carl说“But stealing books is metaphysically different from stealing like money.”瞬间让我想到孔乙己的“窃书不能算偷”，不由会心一笑。
1 有用 momo 2015-02-15 12:26:49
极其想读，等亚马逊出kindle版///////等不及便买了有声书，大饱耳福！
0 有用 小岛 2020-08-27 19:47:24
@2008-03-29 13:37:33
0 有用 小岛 2020-08-27 19:47:24
@2008-03-29 13:37:33
2 有用 Shelly Wu 2015-06-16 14:39:24
第一篇Edward 和 Carl的对话就有点叛逆味道~两人你来我往的挺有意思~尤其是Carl说“But stealing books is metaphysically different from stealing like money.”瞬间让我想到孔乙己的“窃书不能算偷”，不由会心一笑。
1 有用 momo 2015-02-15 12:26:49
极其想读，等亚马逊出kindle版///////等不及便买了有声书，大饱耳福！
0 有用 独自退场 2013-06-01 21:50:19
原来我10年就标记过barthelme，果然有的人很早前就已经相识。那时候我说“唐纳德，巴特尔梅，《亡父》（the dead father），我喜欢翻译的这个名字，带着一股浓烈的宿命色彩，我喜欢别人这样不可抗拒的命运。”