The Genius
(Donald Barthelme)
"The Genius" is a short story (or at least text) where The protagonist is not but a concept. In this piece of postmodernism there is no track of author, plot, time, or characters. The story undeliberately put a question on the table: "What is a story?". But this question is only one of the secundary effects emerged from the will to look for further answers among the pieces of a fragmented enigma that never existed, perhaps only in the reader''s mind. The genius loves the mirror, lives in a big house far from the madding crowd, far from the airport because he is afraid to fly. The genius is drunk.Donald Barthelme grew up in Houston, he is brother to two other succesful writers: Frederick and Steven Barthelme. He came to New York editing magazines and started contributing to the "New Yorker" with short stories. Experimental writing and satirical humor are constant in his work.
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