When Donald Barthelme died at the age of 54, he was perhaps the
most imitated (if not emulated) practitioner of American
literature. Caustic, slyly observant, transgressive, verbally
scintillating, Barthelme's essays, stories, and novels redefined a
generation of American letters and remain unparalleled for the way
they capture our national pastimes and obsessions, but most of all
for the way they caputure the strangeness of life.
Not-Knowing amounts to the posthumous manifesto of one of our
premier literary modernists. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on
writing (his own and others); his observations on art,
architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two never
previously published; 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."
"From the Trade Paperback edition.
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