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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.”

  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
  24. 24.
    Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
    by Grace Paley
  25. 25.
    I, etcetera: Stories
    by Susan Sontag
  27. 27.
    The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17)
    by Joseph Campbell
  29. 29.
    Fiction and the Figures of Life
    by William H. Gass
  30. 30.
    The World Within The Word Essays
    by William H. Gass
  31. 31.
    Advertisements for Myself
    by Norman Mailer
  32. 32.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  33. 33.
    Journey To The End Of The Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  34. 34.
    The Box Man: A Novel
    by Kobo Abe
  35. 35.
    Invisible Cities
    by Italo Calvino
  36. 36.
    A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Peter Handke
  37. 37.
    Kaspar and Other Plays
    by Peter Handke
  38. 38.
    Nadja
    by Andre Breton
  39. 39.
    Chimera
    by John Barth
  40. 40.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy
  41. 41.
    Black Tickets: Stories
    by Jayne Anne Phillips
  42. 42.
    The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
    by Peter Taylor
  43. 43.
    The Pure and the Impure (Le Pur et L'Impur)
    by Colette
  44. 44.
    Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories
    by Raymond Carver
  45. 45.
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever
  46. 46.
    I Would Have Saved Them If I Could
    by Leonard Michaels
  47. 47.
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
    by Eudora Welty
  48. 48.
    The Oranging of America
    by Max Apple
  49. 49.
    The Complete Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor
  50. 50.
    Mumbo Jumbo
    by Ishmael Reed
  51. 51.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  52. 52.
    The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel
    by Carlos Fuentes
  53. 53.
    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
    by Milan Kundera
  54. 54.
    The Rhetoric of Fiction
    by Wayne C. Booth
  55. 55.
  56. 56.
    The Coup
    by John Updike
  57. 57.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike
  58. 58.
    ?
    Paris Review interviews

  59. 59.
    ?
    How We Live
    by ed. L. Rust Hills
  60. 60.
    Superfiction
    by ed. Joe David Bellamy
  61. 61.
    ?
  62. 62.
    The Writer on Her Work, Volume 1
    by Janet Sternberg
  63. 63.
    Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
    by Andre Breton
  64. 64.
    ?
    Documents of Modern Art
    by ed. Motherwell
  65. 65.
    Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
    by Susan Sontag
  66. 66.
    A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers
    by Hugh Kenner
  67. 67.
    ?
    The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880 (Vol. 2)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  69. 69.
    ?
    The Changeling
    by Joy Williams
  70. 70.
    The New Fiction: Interviews With Innovative American Writers
    by Joe David Bellamy
  71. 71.
    Going After Cacciato
    by Tim O'Brien
  72. 72.
    The Palm-Wine Drunkard
    by Amos Tutola
  73. 73.
    Searching for Caleb
    by Anne Tyler
  74. 74.
    ?
    Thank You and Other Poems
    by Kenneth Koch
  75. 75.
    The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
    by Frank O'Hara
  76. 76.
    ?
    Rivers and Mountains
    by John Ashbery
  77. 77.
    ?
    Tragic Magic
    by Wesley Brown
  78. 78.
    Mythologies
    by Roland Barthes
  79. 79.
    The Pleasure of the Text
    by Roland Barthes
  80. 80.
    For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
    by Alain Robbe-Grillet
  81. 81.
    Falling in Place
    by Ann Beattie
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