1、Donald Barthelme,Born: April 7,1931(Philadelphia, PA ) Died: July 23,1989 (Houston, TX ) Occupation: Author Nationality: United States,Contents,1. Life experience born education marriage death 2. Works major works writing style 3. Contribution 4. Reference,Life experience,born in Philadelphia, 1931

2、first articles for the Houston Post ,1951 drafted into the U.S. Army, 1953 Continue studying philosophy at the University of Houston (until 1957) teach for brief periods at Boston University, University at Buffalo, and the College of the City of New York (1974 to 1975),marry four times has two daugh

3、ters His second wife, Helen Barthelme, later wrote a biography entitled Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound, published in 2001. died from throat cancer in 1989,Major works,Novels Snow White (1967)白雪公主或者白雪公主后傳 The Dead Father(1975) 死去的父親 Paradise 天堂 The King (1990)國王 Collections City Life(1

4、970)The Glass Mountain Sixty Stories(1981) Forty Stories(1988),The Glass Mountain,The Glass Mountain is chosen from Barthelmes short story called City Life. This story is a good example of postmodern fiction. It offers itself as a collection of sentences and sentences fragment, indicating the author

5、s postmodern sensibility for experiment with creative writing. The author seems to show the form rather than the content. The author put himself inside the text to question the act of using language and producing literature.,Writing style,short stories are often exceptionally compact , focusing on i

6、ncident rather than complete narratives. avoid traditional plot structures, relying instead on a steady accumulation of unrelated detail. using skepticism and irony plays with the meanings of words, relying on poetic intuition to spark new connections of ideas buried in the expressions and conventio

7、nal responses.,Contribution,playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. worked as a newspaper reporter, director, co-founder, professor one of the original founders won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award,Reference,1. Folta, Alexander Donald Barthelme als Postmoderner Erzhler: Poetologie, Literatur und Gesellschaft P. Lang, 1991 The novel was made into the successful 2009 film Crazy Heart. Interview with Ruas and Sherman, 1