Donald Barthelme

Dunkirk has fallen, the Americans have not yet entered the war, and King Arthur and his Knights of the Table Round are hip-deep in the fighting. And Churchill and the new chaps think they are running things. A retelling of Le Morte d'Arthur as only Donald Barthelme could dream it up--sublime comedy and dark romance. …

The Dead Father is a post-modernist novel by author Donald Barthelme published in 1975 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book relates the journey of a vaguely defined entity that symbolizes fatherhood, hauled by a small group of people as the plot unravels through narratives, anecdotes, dialogues, reflexions and …