Forty Stories
by Barthelme, Donald; Eggers, DaveEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-01-25
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
William H. Gass has written of Donald Barthelme that he has permanently enlarged our perception of the possibilities open to short fiction.” In Forty Stories, the companion volume to Sixty Stories, we encounter a dazzling array of subjects: Paul Klee, Goethe, Captain Blood, modern courtship, marriage and divorce, armadillos, and other unique Barthelmean flights of fancy. These pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces tangle with the ludicrous, pose questions that remain unresolved, and challenge familiar bits of language heretofore unexamined. Forty Storiesdemonstrates Barthelme’s unrivaled ability to surprise, to stimulate, and to explore.
Author Biography
Donald Barthelme (1931-û1989) was the author of seventeen books and the winner of a National Book Award.
Rick Moody is the author of several books, most recently the memoir The Black Veil.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Chablis | p. 1 |
| On the deck | p. 4 |
| The genius | p. 7 |
| Opening | p. 14 |
| Sindbad | p. 18 |
| The explanation | p. 25 |
| Concerning the bodyguard | p. 35 |
| Rif | p. 40 |
| The palace at four a.m. | p. 46 |
| Jaws | p. 53 |
| Conversations with Goethe | p. 57 |
| Affection | p. 60 |
| The new owner | p. 67 |
| Paul Klee | p. 70 |
| Terminus | p. 75 |
| The educational experience | p. 79 |
| Bluebeard | p. 82 |
| Departures | p. 88 |
| Visitors | p. 96 |
| The wound | p. 105 |
| At the Tolstoy Museum | p. 109 |
| The flight of pigeons from the palace | p. 120 |
| A few moments of sleeping and waking | p. 131 |
| The temptation of St. Anthony | p. 139 |
| Sentence | p. 147 |
| Pepperoni | p. 154 |
| Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby | p. 157 |
| Lightning | p. 162 |
| The catechist | p. 171 |
| Porcupines at the university | p. 178 |
| Sakrete | p. 183 |
| Captain Blood | p. 187 |
| 110 West Sixty-first Street | p. 193 |
| The film | p. 198 |
| Overnight to many distant cities | p. 206 |
| Construction | p. 211 |
| Letters to the editore | p. 217 |
| Great days | p. 222 |
| The baby | p. 234 |
| January | p. 237 |
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