The Dead Father

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.