It’s about two soldiers assigned to monitor a console in an underground bunker, and how they’re affected when they fail to get relieved from the job. In game by donald barthelme we have the theme of isolation, hostility, trust, freedom, paralysis, doubt and connection Game by donald barthelme, first published in the new yorker two men have been locked underground somewhere in utah, montana, or idaho with instructions to wait for a monitor's signal then each turn a key in a lock simultaneously to fire a bird at an unknown target city.
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“game” by donald barthelme was published in the print edition of the july 31, 1965, issue of the new yorker.
A great short story is tightly wound—no wasted words or breaths—but a great short story has new contours when we return to it
I first read “game” in the basement of a university library, among the dark stacks of nearly discarded issues of popular mechanics. Welcome to donald barthelme's world of postmodern short fiction I have a special fondness for game since this five page snapper served as my introduction to mr Barthelme’s highly distinctive voice and style.
Shotwell keeps the jacks and the rubber ball in his attaché case and will not allow me to play with them. It’s difficult to know just what to make of a story like this I can only imagine the stir it caused in literary circles when it hit the pages of the new yorker in 1965. A reading of donald barthelme's story the game
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