School, the (1974) [Short Story]
by Donald Barthelme
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Summary
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In this monologue, a teacher describes a series of tragic events that have befallen his school over the course of the year.
First published in The New Yorker, 17 June 1974.
Original title: The School
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics→ Post-modern, Avant-garde, & Experimental
This work is a subwork of the following works : Amateurs (1976) [Collection] Author: Donald Barthelme
Sudden Fiction International (1989) [Anthology] Authors: Yasunari Kawabata
, Heinrich Böll
, Nadine Gordimer
, Bernard Malamud
, Donald Barthelme
, Gabriel García Márquez
, Margaret Atwood
, Doris Lessing
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Paul Theroux
, Julio Cortázar
, Italo Calvino
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Isak Dinesen
, Mark Helprin
, Monica Wood
, Clarice Lispector
, Josef Škvorecký
, Stuart Dybek
, Jamaica Kincaid
, Colette
, Bessie Head
, Peter Handke
, Barry Yourgrau
, Bharati Mukherjee
, Jeannette Winterson
, Dino Buzzati
, Peter Carey
, Slawomir Mrozek
, Luisa Valenzuela
, Richard G. Brautigan
, Ann Beattie
, R.K. Narayan
, Leslie Norris
, Spencer Holst
, David Michael Kaplan
, David Brooks
, Krishnan Varma
, Kenneth Bernard
, Patricia Grace
, Panos Ioannides
, Hernán Lara Zavala
, Yuan Ch'iung-chiung
, Rodrigo Rey Rosa
, Talat Abbasi
, Paul Milenski
, Denis Hirson
, Ron Carlson
, Edla van Steen
, Feng Jicai
, Paulé Bartón
, Fernando Sorrentino
, Siv Cedering
, Daniel Boulanger
, Sergei Dovlatov
, Barbara Alberti
, Julio Ortega
, J. Bernlef
, Bai Xiao-yi
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