SOURCE: Bruss, Paul. “Barthelme's Short Stories: Ironic Suspensions of Text.” In Victims: Textual Strategies in Recent American Fiction, pp. 113-29. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1981.
In the following essay, Bruss explores the suspension of self and the roles of narrative style and irony in Barthelme's short fiction.
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