Example sentences for: barthelme

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

  • I started picking up The New Yorker , back when I was a sprout, in order to read Donald Barthelme.

  • Had Barthelme lived longer (he died in 1989, at 58), the majority of these items would not have been reprinted for another 20 or 30 years, and then probably in the usual dead-author package by the University of Winooski Press, for acquisition by selected academic libraries.

  • Such is Barthelme's power when he's operating at full throttle--his piano seems to have 888 keys.

  • 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.

  • Reading Barthelme may make you think of Surrealism, of Pop Art, of various species of what used to be called bricolage, but what came to my mind, revisiting his stories after a long absence, was the mile-a-minute channel-switching in the monologues of Robin Williams.


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