Come Back, Dr. Caligari
The fourteen stories in Come Back, Dr. Calgary share a hard and brilliant surface, a marvellous black humor, a half-delicate, half-ferocious emotion. Mingling the grotesque with the matter-of-fact, they produce in the reader an immediate, exciting sense of encounter. Mr. Barthelme does not take...
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The fourteen stories in Come Back, Dr. Calgary share a hard and brilliant surface, a marvellous black humor, a half-delicate, half-ferocious emotion. Mingling the grotesque with the matter-of-fact, they produce in the reader an immediate, exciting sense of encounter.
Mr. Barthelme does not take for granted the form in which he works, but instead baits it, insults it, turns it inside out. Testing the possibilities of parody, insanity, discontinuity and collage, he achieves finally an art that is deeply involved with the mystery of human gesture and response.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316082549 (0316082546)
Publish date: 1971-06
Publisher: Little Brown & Co (P)
Pages no: 184
Edition language: English
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