BARTHELME DONALD

Κάποιοι από μας απειλούσαμε τον φίλο μας τον Κόλμπι και άλλα διηγήματα
Μια παρέα αναζητά τον πιο ευχάριστο τρόπο τιμωρίας ενός φίλου· ένας μεγιστάνας αγοράζει μια πόλη και τη διαμορφώνει σύμφωνα με τα παρανοϊκά του σχέδια· ένας μελαγχολικός βασιλιάς νοσταλγεί τη σχέση του με ένα ατίθασο τελώνιο· ένα γιγάντιο μπαλόνι αναστατώνει τη ζωή των κατοίκων της Νέας Υόρκης. Αυτά και άλλα παρόμοια μπορεί να περιμένει κανείς πως θα συναντήσει στα διηγήματα του Αμερικανού συγγραφέα Donald Barthelme (1931-89): σουρεαλιστικές εικόνες, ευφάνταστους διαλόγους, αλλόκοτες μεταμορφώσεις, παιγνιώδεις ανατροπές, όλα αυτά εμποτισμέ...
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(P/B) FORTY STORIES
In "Forty Stories", Donald Barthelme invented a random universe in which time, reality, meaning and language are turned exuberantly upside-down. He describes a startling array of occurrences - a lumberjack falls in love with a tree nymph; the poet Goethe becomes a loveable buffoon, spouting such eccentric aphorisms as "Music is the frozen tapioca in the ice chest of History"; St Anthony's reclusive behaviour causes consternation among his friends and neighbours; and a vast swarm of porcupines, about to descend upon a university to enrol, f...
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(P/B) SIXTY STORIES
With these sixty audacious and blackly witty stories, Donald Barthelme depicts a rich miscellany of the absurdities of life. Surreal events abound - a thirty-five year old man finds himself back in sixth grade due to a baffling error; King Kong, now an adjunct professor of art history, climbs through a window to join a drinks party; the new owner of a little city becomes overwhelmed by the demands its citizens make on their proprietor; and the nonsense poet Edward Lear cheerfully invites his acquaintances to his bedside to witness his deat...
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(P/B) SOME OF US HAD BEEN THREATENING OUR FRIEND COLBY
"I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far." Donald Barthelme is a puckish player with language, a writer of short but endlessly rewarding comic gems, a thinker and an experimenter. In these nine short stories, whether writing about a hairy, donkeyish king or a touching, private gesture of city-sized proportions, his is a surreal, deadpan genius. This book includes So...
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Ο ΝΕΚΡΟΣ ΠΑΤΕΡΑΣ
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Η ΖΩΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΗΣ
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