Volume 28, Number 21 & 22 · January 21, 1982
Neither Here Nor There
By Richard Ellmann
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme
Putnam, 457 pp., $15.95
In the world of Magritte and Michaux, which is also the world of Donald Barthelme, the familiar arrives without its usual credentials of expectations raised and satisfied. People and things either lack their usual outlines or else keep them in a frame against which they suddenly appear distorted. Clouds mingle freely with not-clouds. We are neither here nor there.
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