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The School: Postmodernist Ideas
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Barthelme's "The School" is the first postmodernist story I have ever read.
When I read it for the first time, my lips formed a bitter smile. In my
imagination, postmodernist stories differed from the classical ones in the
arrangement of the ideas and in the standard that postmodernists reject so ....
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....d while playing with each other in a dangerous
place. What else, but pessimism, could one expect in an environment where every
living thing, including children, is dying?
Death's dominance in the story shows again that society, which presumably
should foster the growth of the future individuals (i.e. children), destroys
their very existence. By the end of the story, it is easy to understand that
death is the destiny of the children as well, because it would be impossible for
them to live .... |
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