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The Balloon Donald Barthelme PDF
The Balloon Donald Barthelme PDF
At the begging he controls the ballooon, i'm the writter. the setting is pretty ironic, the new york city is a epitomy about the postmodernism.Although we are rodeados de technology seguimos impresionandonos
por un globo.
iconic mark.
Reasons why people don't take advantage of the balloon. Represt the pos
derm and the people din'd trusth of what the author did.
Complexity of language
putting our thought into words
Is a contrast because the author said that there is no agenda so, the
narrator reveals the ballon as an autobiographical disclosure. The personal
agenda (a diversion to keep him busy while his lover is in Norway. When
he is talking about de deinflates it means that the ballons without the
context of the absense is incomprensible, there is no meanign behind the
ballons. In this story there are as meaning ballons as many people are.
The sky represents the conventional art and now the balloon (the
new art)( is
covering the sky. The new art covering the conventional, traditional
art. Then, we see some
people who like the balloon. Artists are brave enough to challenge
the conventional art.
This novel crtizes the "grand narratives" because this novel understand that the representation isn't real, it's always
perversion of the original. There is not just one teory of knowledge but several interpretations Impossible to attain
full knowledge.