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luxperpetua's "Barthelme syllabus"

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. At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien
  
2. The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien
  
3. The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
by Isaac Babel
  
4. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
5. Other Inquisitions: 1937-1952 (Texas Pan American Series)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
7. Correction
by Thomas Bernhard
  
8.
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 Nog
by Rudy Wurlitzer
  
9. Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  
10. The Assistant: A Novel
by Bernard Malamud
  
11. The Magic Barrel: Stories
by Bernard Malamud
  
12. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
13. Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Malcolm Lowry
  
14.
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 Samuel Beckett (complete works)
by Samuel Beckett
  
15. Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
  
16. I'm Not Stiller (A Harvest Book)
by Max Frisch
  
17.
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 Man in the Holocene
by Max Frisch
  
18. Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen
  
19.
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 Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
by Tommaso Landolfi
  
20. V. (Perennial Classics)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
21. The Lime Twig
by John Hawkes
  
22. The Blood Oranges
by John Hawkes
  
23. The Little Disturbances of Man (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Grace Paley
  
24. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
by Grace Paley
  
25. I, etcetera: Stories
by Susan Sontag
  
26. Tell Me a Riddle (Women Writers : Texts and Contexts)  
27. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books)
by Joseph Campbell
  
28. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories (Nonpareil Books, #21)
by William H. Gass
  
29. Fiction and the Figures of Life
by William H. Gass
  
30. The World Within the Word: Essays
by William H. Gass
  
31. Advertisements for Myself
by Norman Mailer
  
32. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
33. Journey To The End Of The Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
34. The Box Man: A Novel
by Kobo Abe
  
35. Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
by Italo Calvino
  
36. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (New York Review Books Classics)
by Peter Handke
  
37. Kaspar and Other Plays
by Peter Handke
  
38. Nadja
by Andre Breton
  
39. Chimera
by John Barth
  
40. The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
  
41. Black Tickets: Stories
by Jayne Anne Phillips
  
42. The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
by Peter Taylor
  
43.
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 The Pure and the Impure (Le Pur et L'Impur)
by Colette
  
44. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories
by Raymond Carver
  
45. The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
  
46.
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 I Would Have Saved Them If I Could
by Leonard Michaels
  
47. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
  
48.
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 The Oranging of America
by Max Apple
  
49. The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
  
50. Mumbo Jumbo
by Ishmael Reed
  
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Created by luxperpetua on May 27, 2006.