Donald Barthelme

The Dead Father

Philosophical fable depicting a dead father's journey dragged across mystical landscape

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Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme was the supreme American practitioner of postmodern short fiction, whose fragmented, collage-style stories in The New Yorker redefined what a short story could be. His novel Snow White applied the same techniques to a full-length work.

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