Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme
This article is about the author, Donald Barthelme Jr. For his father, the architect, see Donald Barthelme...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
messages has-beens
We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.
crafts doe tasks
The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.
tickets spots lottery-ticket
The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.
shrinking fading world
The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.
dripping instant-gratification seasons
Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.
tasks problem solve
The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.
mtv forever surrealism
MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.