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Donald Barthelme, né le 7 avril 1931 à Philadelphie et mort le 23 juillet 1989 à Houston, est un auteur américain reconnu pour ses nouvelles enjouées de style postmoderniste.

Il a également travaillé comme journaliste pour le Houston Post, a été directeur du magazine Location, directeur du musée d'art contemporain de Houston , cofondateur de Fiction et de la revue Gulf Coast,, et professeur dans diverses universités. Il est également l'un des fondateurs des ateliers d'écriture créative de l'université de Houston qui a créé en son honneur plusieurs prix littéraires. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. avril 1931 – 23. juillet 1989  •  Autres noms دونالد بارتلمی, Дональд Бартелмі
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Donald Barthelme: Citations en anglais

“Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn’t take, their constant bickering and smallness, it’s like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don’t scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.”

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Donald Barthelme livre Sixty Stories

“Aria”, conclusion.
Sixty Stories (1981)

“The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.”

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Donald Barthelme

"Me and Miss Mandible".
Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964)

“People always like to hear that they’re under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they’d feel if they were told they weren’t under stress.”

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“Jaws”
Forty Stories (1987)

“"Is that true," I asked, "that song?"
"It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth."
"And the end of the mechanical age," I said, "is that a metaphor?"
"The end of the mechanical age," said Mrs. Davis, "is in my judgment an actuality straining to become a metaphor. One must wish it luck, I suppose. One must cheer it on. Intellectual rigor demands that we give these damned metaphors every chance, even if they are inimical to personal well-being and comfort. We have a duty to understand everything, whether we like it or not–a duty I would scant if I could." At that moment the water jumped into the boat and sank us.”

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Donald Barthelme livre Sixty Stories

"At The End Of The Mechanical Age".
Sixty Stories (1981)

“The new thing, a great banality in white, off-white and poor-white, leaned up against the wall. “Interesting,” we said. “It’s poor,” Snow White said. “Poor, poor.” “Yes,” Paul said,” one of my poorer things I think.” “Not so poor of course as yesterday’s, poorer on the other hand than some,” she said. “Yes,” Paul said, “it has some of the qualities of poorness.” “Especially poor in the lower left-hand corner,” she said. “Yes,” Paul said, “I would go so far as to hurl it into the marketplace.” “They’re getting poorer,” she said. “Poorer and poorer,” Paul said with satisfaction, “descending to unexplored depths of poorness where no human intelligence has ever been.””

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Donald Barthelme livre Snow White

… “Sublimely poor,” she murmured. “Wallpaper,” he said.
Source: Snow White (1967), p. 48.

“How old are you Hogo.” “Thirty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be.” “You don’t mind then. That you are not young.” “It has its buggy aspects as what does not?” “You don’t mind then that you are sagging in the direction of death.”

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Donald Barthelme livre Snow White

“No, Jane.”
Source: Snow White (1967), p. 128.

“Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?”

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Donald Barthelme livre Sixty Stories

I asked Mrs. Davis.
"I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce."
"At The End Of The Mechanical Age".
Sixty Stories (1981)

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