Donald Barthelme's new book of stories, Great Days, is perhaps most notable for the presence of seven formally related dialogues, The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days, which introduce a new aspect of his work. In these restless, ...
白雪公主是家喻户晓的童话故事,本书中的白雪公主完全摆脱了童话的模式,成了一个普通的现代女性,有烦恼,有心事。会压抑,也会有妒忌心,还充满了女权意识。此书充满了一种黑色幽默,堪称荒诞派文学的经典之作。
《白雪公主后传》是美国文学大师巴塞尔姆最重要的作品。在大师的笔下,白雪公主已成为一个普通的现代女性,是个有七情六欲的真实人:有压抑感,落魄感和妒忌心,也仍然想入非非,做着与现实生活格格不入的童话中的梦。她仍然希望像原来那样,成为关注的中心。她已经厌烦了这个家和自己的家庭角色,对歧视女性的社会忿忿不满,听厌了矮人们喋喋不休的陈问滥调,因此内心充满改变现状的渴求。绝望中,她甚至盼望着能有一次带性丑闻的...
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a ge...
唐纳德·巴塞尔姆Donald Barthelme(1931年4月7日—1989年7月23日)是美国后现代主义小说家,代表作是《白雪公主》。他一生写了大量的短篇小说,并曾从事新闻记者、杂志编辑等工作,并曾在纽约城市大学任教。
虽然以短篇小说文明,巴塞尔姆一生中亦著有四部中长篇小说:《白雪公主》(Snow White),《死去的父亲》(The Dead Father),《天堂》(Paradise)以及 The King。他的一百多篇短篇收集在 《Come Back, Dr. Caligari》、 《Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts》《City Life》和...
Experimentation with the absurd, both in theme and technique, is by no means a totally new development in literature, especially for those readers familiar with the works of Camus, Kafka, Beckett, Genêt, and Robbe-Grillet. Like these writers, Mr. Barthelme satirizes and mimics most of the clichés of...
Kaleidoscopically mesmerizing... Powerfully illuminating -- Village Voice
From New York to Tokyo to Copenhagen to the Radiant City of Le Corbusier, this sophisticated and surreal collection of short stories and brief visionary texts takes us on an exhilarating tour of the modern urban -- and psychol...
A fifty-three-year-old architect with a tragic sense of brick, Simon takes a year's sabbatical from his job and his marriage and moves to New York. The apartment he sublets is spacious and empty, so when he meets three gorgeous lingerie models -- half his age and a little down on their luck -- at a ...