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- Forty Stories collects forty of Donald Barthelme's short stories, several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. The book was first published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1987. While Sixty Stories includes many longer narratives, the stories in Forty Stories are pithy. Many last for fewer than five pages, and display Barthelme's flash fictional tendencies. They also abound in historical references and surreal juxtapositions. One story involves a World War I Secret Police investigator, a trio of German warplanes, and the artist Paul Klee. Another is a parodic rewriting of the fairy-tale Bluebeard, perhaps inspired by Angela Carter's story "The Bloody Chamber." Yet another consists of a single seven-page-long sentence (without a concluding period). The following stories appear in the book: 1.
* Chablis 2.
* On the Deck 3.
* The Genius 4.
* Opening 5.
* Sindbad 6.
* The Explanation 7.
* Concerning the Bodyguard 8.
* RIF 9.
* The Palace at Four A.M. 10.
* Jaws 11.
* Conversations with Goethe 12.
* Affection 13.
* The New Owner 14.
* Paul Klee [full title: "Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplaces an Aircraft Between Milbertshoffen and Cambrai, March 1916"] 15.
* Terminus 16.
* The Educational Experience 17.
* Bluebeard 18.
* Departures 19.
* Visitors 20.
* The Wound 21.
* At the Tolstoy Museum 22.
* The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace 23.
* A Few Moments of Sleeping and Waking 24.
* The Temptation of St. Anthony 25.
* Sentence 26.
* Pepperoni 27.
* Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby 28.
* Lightning 29.
* The Catechist 30.
* Porcupines at the University 31.
* Sakrete 32.
* Captain Blood 33.
* 110 West Sixty-first Street 34.
* The Film 35.
* Overnight to Many Distant Cities 36.
* Construction 37.
* Letters to the Editore 38.
* Great Days 39.
* The Baby 40.
* January (en)
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- Forty Stories collects forty of Donald Barthelme's short stories, several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. The book was first published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1987. While Sixty Stories includes many longer narratives, the stories in Forty Stories are pithy. Many last for fewer than five pages, and display Barthelme's flash fictional tendencies. They also abound in historical references and surreal juxtapositions. One story involves a World War I Secret Police investigator, a trio of German warplanes, and the artist Paul Klee. Another is a parodic rewriting of the fairy-tale Bluebeard, perhaps inspired by Angela Carter's story "The Bloody Chamber." Yet another consists of a single seven-page-long sentence (without a concluding period). (en)
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