I want to be the baby
Kasia Boddy: Barthelme’s High Jinks, 18 August 2022
Collected Stories
by Donald Barthelme, edited by Charles McGrath.
Library of America, 1004 pp., £40, July 2021,978 1 59853 684 3 Show More
by Donald Barthelme, edited by Charles McGrath.
Library of America, 1004 pp., £40, July 2021,
“... 1960s were a great era of collage in all sorts of media: not just Robert Rauschenberg, but also John Ashbery and Bob Dylan. For Barthelme, it wasn’t simply a matter of playing with found forms or language. That was ‘cheapo surrealism’. Instead his stories explore situations (‘The Party’, ‘Brain Damage’, ‘City Life’) that are experienced as ... ”