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. 51.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  2. 52.
    The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel
    by Carlos Fuentes

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  3. 53.
    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
    by Milan Kundera

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  4. 54.
    The Rhetoric of Fiction
    by Wayne Booth

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  5. 55.
    Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  6. 56.
    The Coup
    by John Updike

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  7. 57.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  8. 58.
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    Paris Review interviews

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  9. 59.
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    How We Live
    by ed. L. Rust Hills

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  10. 60.
    Superfiction
    by ed. Joe David Bellamy

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  11. 61.
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  12. 62.
    The Writer on Her Work, Volume 1
    by Janet Sternberg

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  13. 63.
    Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
    by Andre Breton

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  14. 64.
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    Documents of Modern Art
    by ed. Motherwell

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  15. 65.
    Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
    by Susan Sontag

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  16. 66.
    A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers
    by Hugh Kenner

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  17. 67.
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    The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  18. 69.
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    The Changeling
    by Joy Williams

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  19. 70.
    The New Fiction: Interviews With Innovative American Writers
    by Joe David Bellamy

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  20. 71.
    Going After Cacciato
    by Tim O'Brien

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  21. 72.
    The Palm-Wine Drunkard
    by Amos Tutola

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  22. 73.
    Searching for Caleb
    by Anne Tyler

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  23. 74.
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    Thank You and Other Poems
    by Kenneth Koch

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  24. 75.
    The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
    by Frank O'Hara

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  25. 76.
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    Rivers and Mountains
    by John Ashbery

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  26. 77.
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    Tragic Magic
    by Wesley Brown

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  27. 78.
    Mythologies
    by Roland Barthes

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  28. 79.
    The Pleasure of the Text
    by Roland Barthes

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  29. 80.
    For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
    by Alain Robbe-Grillet

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  30. 81.
    Falling in Place
    by Ann Beattie

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