Paradise (Barthelme novel)

Paradise is a 1986 novel by American writer Donald Barthelme. The novel concerns an architect, Simon, and his creation of an apparent paradise for himself.[1][2]

Paradise
AuthorDonald Barthelme
Pages208 pages

The novel takes place in New York City.[3]

Reception

New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani compared the novel unfavorably to Barthelme's earlier novels and short stories, writing that it "[...] has little of the vitality or inventiveness of Mr. Barthelme's earlier work and none of its provocative intelligence."[3] Elizabeth Jolley, also writing in The New York Times, praised the novel's humor and referred to it as a "shock and a revelation".[4]

References
  1. Kušnír, Jaroslav (2012). American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction. ibidem. ISBN 9783838255149. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  2. Burt, Daniel S., ed. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times. Houghton Mifflin. p. 662. ISBN 9780618168217. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  3. Kakutani, Michiko (22 October 1986). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES: Paradise". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  4. Jolley, Elizabeth (26 October 1986). "IS SIMON IN HOG HEAVEN?". New York Times. Retrieved 8 May 2020.


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