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Note also Saramago's detached melancholy, his brainy anti-elitism, his characters who are lovable but archetypal and abstract.
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.
What other madcap farce would dare to have a score--it's by the superb Carter Burwell--so plangent and melancholy?
There's an edginess, a tough guy's melancholy, to Davis' sound.
(I would make an exception for Peanuts , which has become popular in the comics world to trash; if that strip came out today as is, it would be too weird and melancholy for daily papers; it might run in a few of the more daring weeklies.)