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Glass Mountain eBook

by Donald Barthelme
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, March of 2014 ‧
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A glass mountain sits in the middle of a city and at the top sits a ''beautiful, enchanted symbol''. Seeking to disenchant it, the narrator must climb the mountain. Confronted by the jeers of acquaintances, the bodies of previous climbers and the claws of a guarding eagle he, slowly, begins to ascend. In true postmodernist form, subject and purpose collide as Donald Barthelme uses one-hundred fragmented statements to destabilise a symbol of his own - literature''s conventional forms and practices. With a quest, a princess and an array of knights, Barthelme subverts that most traditional of genres, the fairy-tale; irony, absurdity, and playful self-reflexivity are the champions of this short story.

Glass Mountain

by Donald Barthelme

Property Description
ISBN: 9780718196264
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: March of 2014
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Collection: Penguin Modern Classics
Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
EAN: 9780718196264
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) é uma das vozes mais singulares da ficção pós-moderna norte-americana e insere-se numa linhagem de virtuosos e de contorcionistas literários – com James Joyce à cabeça, e David Foster Wallace na retaguarda. Professor universitário, colaborou assiduamente com diversos periódicos, entre os quais a revista The New Yorker. Distinguiu-se pela rejeição das convenções narrativas e pelo seu estilo ficcional insólito (o barthelmismo, segundo Thomas Pynchon), caracterizado pela ironia e pela excentricidade com que aborda temas como a família, a cultura popular e a política. É autor dos romances Snow White (1965) e The Dead Father (1975) e da colectânea 40 Histórias, publicada pela Antígona em 2013.

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