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en-wikipedia-org-7534		Donald Barthelme - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2998	267	66	Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. In the final paragraph, the reader learns that the narrator has inflated the balloon for purely personal reasons, and he sees no intrinsic meaning in the balloon itself,[page needed] a metaphor for the amorphous, uncertain nature of Barthelme's fiction.[citation needed] Other notable stories from this collection include "The Indian Uprising," a mad collage of a Comanche attack on a modern city, and "Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning," a series of vignettes showing the difficulties of truly knowing a public figure. The critic George Wicks called Barthelme "the leading American practitioner of surrealism today...whose fiction continues the investigations of consciousness and experiments in expression that began with Dada and surrealism a half-century ago." Another critic, Jacob Appel, described him as "the most influential unread author in United States history."[7] Barthelme has been described in many other ways, such as in an article in Harper's where Josephine Henden classified him as an angry sado-masochist.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7534.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7534.txt