Example sentences for: barthelme

How can you use “barthelme” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Actually, you won't find much of this kind of machine-gun improvisation in Not-Knowing , at least once past the bracing title essay, the most fully fleshed apologia Barthelme achieved, which barrels from Husserl to "Melancholy Baby" to the past-due bills on his desk in mock-peevish diatribe.

  • Anecdotes are retailed in pieces and retold in interviews; the same citations crop up again and again; I lost count of how many times Barthelme attests to his debt to Beckett and explains that his writing not resembling Beckett's is a paradoxical measure of his thrall.

  • There is a transcription of a 1975 fiction symposium in which Barthelme says relatively little and the reader is mostly subjected to vast snowdrifts of abstraction courtesy of Gass.

  • Like Williams, Barthelme was a master ventriloquist with a dish antenna in his subconscious.

  • None of this is Barthelme's fault, of course.


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