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Donald Barthelme

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Noun1.Donald Barthelme - United States author of sometimes surrealistic stories (1931-1989)


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While filmmakers like Neil Jordan (``The Company of Wolves'') and writers like Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover have reimagined fairy tales usually to play with the psychosexual underpinnings of the stories, the only purpose Gilliam seems to have in this film is to create a playhouse atmosphere in which to spin out his anarchic imaginings.
If his poetry defied many of the traditional conventions, it was in his fiction that he achieved his most startling achievements in stretching the limits of the American novel with fresh ideas about narration, structure, story, pacing and description, lie was in a league with other rogue novelists such as Roland Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme and Reed.
They share that space with Donald Barthelme, America's Lewis Carroll, and, at their best, the essays in Soapbox are worthy of that fancy company.
 
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