The King (novel)
The King is a 1990 novel by American writer Donald Barthelme, in which various characters from the Arthurian legends are still alive in the World War II period.[1]
The book received several reviews:
- Review by Faren Miller (1990) in Locus, #356 September 1990
- Review by Orson Scott Card (1990) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1990
- Review by Dorota Djaczenko (1997) in Talizman #2-3 1997, p. 112 (in Polish)
- Review in The New Yorker[2]
- Review in The New York Times[3]
The novel has also been subject to scholarly analysis.[4][5]
References
- ↑ "The King by Donald Barthelme | History | Research Starters | EBSCO Research". EBSCO. Retrieved 2026-07-21.
- ↑ Yorker, The New (1990-07-02). "Briefly Noted". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2026-07-21.
- ↑ Parini, Jay (1990-05-27). "KING ARTHUR IN THE BLITZ". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-07-21.
- ↑ Delevallée, A. (2017). Donald Barthelme’s The King: The Manifold Guises of (an) American (’s) Memory. Les Cahiers de Framespa. e-STORIA, (24).
- ↑ Mathis, Andrew E. "Barthelme's The King and the Death of the Text." Massachusetts Studies in English: MSE: Journal of the University of Massachusetts Graduate English Program 2, no. 3-4 (1992): 58.