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Page 63
... Barthelme , Sr. , designer of several imaginative structures in Hous- ton . " My father was a ' modern ' architect in the sense that he was an advocate of Mies and Corbu , et al . , " the younger Barthelme has remarked . " He was ...
... Barthelme , Sr. , designer of several imaginative structures in Hous- ton . " My father was a ' modern ' architect in the sense that he was an advocate of Mies and Corbu , et al . , " the younger Barthelme has remarked . " He was ...
Page 77
... Barthelme's continuing fiction is an ever- present object , delivered in the weekly New Yorker and environ- mentally landscaped with the coffee table or easy chair . Because fiction conventionally tends to the opposite extreme , Barthelme ...
... Barthelme's continuing fiction is an ever- present object , delivered in the weekly New Yorker and environ- mentally landscaped with the coffee table or easy chair . Because fiction conventionally tends to the opposite extreme , Barthelme ...
Page 80
... Barthelme's fiction will not ignore . The key to Barthelme's new aesthetic for fiction is that the work may stand for itself , that it need not yield to complete explication of something else in the world but may exist as an individual ...
... Barthelme's fiction will not ignore . The key to Barthelme's new aesthetic for fiction is that the work may stand for itself , that it need not yield to complete explication of something else in the world but may exist as an individual ...
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