| Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews Contributor(s): Barthelme, Donald (Author), Herzinger, Kim (Editor), Herzinger, Kim (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 1593761732 ISBN-13: 9781593761738 Publisher: Catapult OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: When Donald Barthelme died at the age of 54, he was perhaps the most imitated (if not emulated) practitioner of American literature. Caustic, slyly observant, transgressive, verbally scintillating, Barthelme's essays, stories, and novels redefined a generation of American letters and remain unparalleled for the way they capture our national pastimes and obsessions, but most of all for the way they caputure the strangeness of life. Not-Knowing amounts to the posthumous manifesto of one of our premier literary modernists. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two never previously published; and meditations on everything from Superman III to the art of rendering "Melancholy Baby" on jazz banjolele. This is a rich and eclectic selection of work by the man Robert Coover has called "one of the great citizens of contemporary world letters." "From the Trade Paperback edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| LCCN: 2007033307 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.90 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The wildly varied essays in Not-Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America's masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two previously unpublished; and meditations on everything from Superman III to the art of rendering "Melancholy Baby" on jazz banjolele. This is a rich and eclectic selection of work by the man Robert Coover has called "one of the great citizens of contemporary world letters." |