Donald Barthelme (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

In addition to his one hundred and fifty or so short stories, Donald Barthelme published four novels, a children’s volume that won a National Book Award, a number of film reviews and unsigned “Comment” pieces for The New Yorker, a small but interesting body of art criticism, and a handful of book reviews and literary essays, two of which deserve special notice: “After Joyce” and “Not Knowing.”

Achievements

For nearly three decades, Donald Barthelme served as American literature’s most imitated and imitative yet...

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