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.
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 Review in The New York Times
The novel has also been subject to scholarly analysis.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.
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