luxperpetua's "Barthelme syllabus"

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a list of eighty-one books, the recommendations of Donald Barthelme to his students. Barthelme’s only guidance was to attack the books “in no particular order, just read them.”

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  1. 1.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

  2. 2.
    The Third Policeman
    by Flann O'Brien

  3. 3.
    The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
    by Isaac Babel

  4. 4.
    Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  5. 5.
    Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 (Texas Pan American Series)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  6. 6.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  7. 7.
    Correction
    by Thomas Bernhard

  8. 8.
    Nog
    by Rudy Wurlitzer

  9. 9.
    Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

  10. 10.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

  11. 11.
    The Magic Barrel: Stories
    by Bernard Malamud

  12. 12.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

  13. 13.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

  14. 14.
    Samuel Beckett (complete works)
    by Samuel Beckett

  15. 15.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

  16. 16.
    I'm Not Stiller (Harvest Book)
    by Max Frisch

  17. 17.
    Man in the Holocene
    by Max Frisch

  18. 18.
    Seven Gothic Tales
    by Isak Dinesen

  19. 19.
    Gogols Wife and Other Stories
    by Tommaso Landolfi

  20. 20.
    V. (Perennial Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  21. 21.
    The Lime Twig
    by John Hawkes

  22. 22.
    The Blood Oranges: A Novel
    by John Hawkes

  23. 24.
    Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
    by Grace Paley

  24. 25.
    I, etcetera: Stories
    by Susan Sontag

  25. 27.
    The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17)
    by Joseph Campbell

  26. 29.
    Fiction and the Figures of Life
    by William H. Gass

  27. 30.
    The World Within The Word Essays
    by William H. Gass

  28. 31.
    Advertisements for Myself
    by Norman Mailer

  29. 32.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  30. 33.
    Journey To The End Of The Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  31. 34.
    The Box Man: A Novel
    by Kobo Abe

  32. 35.
    Invisible Cities
    by Italo Calvino

  33. 36.
    A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Peter Handke

  34. 37.
    Kaspar and Other Plays
    by Peter Handke

  35. 38.
    Nadja
    by Andre Breton

  36. 39.
    Chimera
    by John Barth

  37. 40.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

  38. 41.
    Black Tickets: Stories
    by Jayne Anne Phillips

  39. 42.
    The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
    by Peter Taylor

  40. 43.
    The Pure and the Impure (Le Pur et L'Impur)
    by Colette

  41. 44.
    Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories
    by Raymond Carver

  42. 45.
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever

  43. 46.
    I Would Have Saved Them If I Could
    by Leonard Michaels

  44. 47.
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
    by Eudora Welty

  45. 48.
    The Oranging of America
    by Max Apple

  46. 49.
    The Complete Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

  47. 50.
    Mumbo Jumbo
    by Ishmael Reed

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Created by luxperpetua on May 27, 2006.
 

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