When Donald Barthelme died at the age of 54 he was perhaps the most imitated (if not emulated) practitioner of American literature. Caustic, slyly observant, transgressive and verbally scintillating, Bartherlme's essays, stories and novels redefined a generation of American letters and remain unparalleled for the way they capture the US pasttimes and obsessions, but nost of all for the way they capture the strangeness of life. Not-Knowing is a posthumous manifesto o... >Voir plus