The Dead Father
of Donald Barthelme, Donald Antrim (Introduction)
Description
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 generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, Reading The Dead Father, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 177 pages
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication Date September 15th 2004
- First Publication 11/06/75
- Language English
- ISBN 9780374529253
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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