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by: Donald Barthelme
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9781593761738
ISBN: 1593761732
Label: Counterpoint
Manufacturer: Counterpoint
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: January 28, 2008
Publisher: Counterpoint
Sales Rank: 618073
Studio: Counterpoint
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The wildly varied essays in Not-Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America’s masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme’s thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two previously unpublished; and meditations on everything from Superman III to the art of rendering “Melancholy Baby” on jazz banjolele. This is a rich and eclectic selection of work by the man Robert Coover has called “one of the great citizens of contemporary world letters.”
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Rating: - DB groupies will need to read the interviews
I bought the first edition, but it took ten years to dive in. The two opening essays, After Joyce, and then 20 years later, Not-Knowing, flash DB's searching and intense intelligence. They also reveal the shift in his understanding of fiction, from a very Beckettian take that each story or novel exists as an object in the world, to the later, more experienced sense that a fundamental aspect of the writer is the practice of exploring the world of sentences about characters, without knowing what will ... Read More
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