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ISBN:	0374529256 (ISBN13: 9780374529253)
Edition Language:	English

The Dead Father

Donald Barthelme

Paperback | Pages: 177 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 1986 Users | 157 Reviews

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Title	:	The Dead Father
Author	:	Donald Barthelme
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 177 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2004 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels

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The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The Dead Father, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive."

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Ratings: 3.79 From 1986 Users | 157 Reviews

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Time passes and humankind keeps hauling a corpse of dead traditions, customs, beliefs, misconceptions and rituals along the trail of history...You are killing me. We? Not we. Not in any sense, we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes. Even if some dogmas and tenets are discarded in the process of the constant progress they don't let us go and we keep carrying this burden of the past on our backs.

Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father is a masterpiece of postmodern fiction. A rumination on fathers, life, love, and of course language. Barthelme can make you laugh out loud with his wit and then stop you in your tracks with a turn of phrase. Not to be missed.

Surreal, hilarious, weird and what Barthelme says about the different types of fathers and sons is very very true! Barthelme successfully weaves up a style redolent of the best moments in Beckett, Joyce and even Borges (with many many lists). He even wrote one chapter in a spin-off style of Finnegans Wake. Very cool. One of the hippest writers who ever lived. Check dis out.

Characteristic of most post-modern literature, the Dead Father has virtually no plot at all. Consequently, this book was extremely hard to get into and the read was somewhat laboured. However, that being said, the 'Manual for Sons' excerpt was amazingly written and somewhat redeems this novel. The last few lines also hit quite hard.

Some of the conflicting thoughts that ran through my mind as I read this . . . My, Barthelme is funny.And smart.Sometimes he's also obnoxious.His bag of tricks is clever and sophisticated.If I'm being honest, though, I like a novel better than I like a bag of tricks.I'm probably not very sophisticated.Was there a male writer from the 2nd half of the 20th Century whose writing about sex wasn't a total embarrassment? It's like they all went to the same school of sex for schoolboys.This Dead Father



Re-read after a 3-year interval while grabbing something quickly on the way out the door - updated review.Mid-70s Barthelme had just the right contemporary counterculture approach to faintly Dada-ist allegory to impress my teenage self mightily. On a subsequent reading in adulthood, it seemed a bit facile, but on what I expect to be the final go-round (ars longa, vita brevis and all that), it returns to 80% satisfactory.The Father in question is mainly He of the Judeo-Christian tradition but