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Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme's syllabus lists 81 essential books for a literary education, featuring works by notable authors such as Flann O'Brien, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Toni Morrison. The selection includes a diverse range of genres and styles, emphasizing the importance of both fiction and critical essays. This curated list serves as a guide for readers seeking to deepen their understanding of literature.

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Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme's syllabus lists 81 essential books for a literary education, featuring works by notable authors such as Flann O'Brien, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Toni Morrison. The selection includes a diverse range of genres and styles, emphasizing the importance of both fiction and critical essays. This curated list serves as a guide for readers seeking to deepen their understanding of literature.

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Donald Barthelme’s Syllabus Highlights 81 Books Essential for a

Literary Education
1. Flann O’Brien, At Swim Two-Birds
2. Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman
3. Isaac Babel, Collected Short Stories
4. Borges, Labyrinths
5. Borges, Other Inquisitions
6. Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
7. Thomas Bernhard, Correction
8. Rudy Wurlitzer, Nog
9. Isaac B Singer, Gimpel the Fool
10. Bernard Malamud, The Assistant
11. Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel
12. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
13. Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
14. Samuel Beckett entire
15. Knut Hamsun, Hunger
16. Max Frisch, I’m Not Stiller
17. Max Frisch, Man in the Holocene
18. Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales
19. Tommaso Landolfi, Gogol’s Wife
20. Thomas Pynchon, V
21. John Hawkes, The Lime Twig
22. John Hawkes, Blood Oranges
23. Paley, Little Disturbances
24. Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
25. Susan Sontag, I, Etc.
26. Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
27. Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces
28. Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
29. John Updike, The Coup
30. John Updike, Rabbit, Run
31. The Paris Review interviews
32. Rust Hills (ed.), How We Live
33. Joe David Bellamy (ed.), Superfiction
34. Puschart Prize Anthologies
35. Sternburg (ed.), The Writer on Her Work
36. André Breton, Manifestos of Surrealism
37. Motherwell (ed.), Documents of Modern Art
38. Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation
39. Hugh Kenner, A Homemade World
40. Flaubert, Letters
41. Mamet, Sexual Perversity in Chicago
42. Joy Williams, The Changeling
43. Joe David Bellamy (ed.), The New Fiction
44. Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato
45. Amos Tutola, The Palm-Wine Drunkard
46. Ann Tyler, Searching for Caleb
47. Kenneth Koch, Thank You
48. Frank O’Hara, Collected Poems
49. John Ashbery, Rivers and Mountains
50. Wesley Brown, Tragic Magic
51. Roland Barthes, Mythologies
52. Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
53. Robbe-Grillet, For a New Novel
54. Ann Beattie, Falling in Place
55. William Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
56. Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life
57. Gass, The World Within the Word
58. Mailer, Advertisements for Myself
59. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
60. Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
61. Kobo Abe, The Box Man
62. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
63. Peter Handke, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
64. Peter Handke, Kaspar and Other Plays
65. André Breton, Nadja
66. John Barth, Chimera
67. Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
68. Jayne Anne Phillips, Black Tickets
69. Peter Taylor, Collected Stories
70. Colette, The Pure and the Impure
71. Carver, Will You Please be Quiet, Please
72. John Cheever, Collected Stories
73. Leonard Michaels, I Would Have Saved Them if I Could
74. Eudora Welty, Collected Stories
75. Max Apple, The Oranging of America
76. Flannery O’Connor, Collected Stories
77. Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
78. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
79. Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
80. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
81. Wayne C Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction

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