Word: caligaris
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barthelme is a quiet, scholarly young Texan-former philosophy student, former art-museum director-who writes the most disturbing and inventive short stories around. Taken together with his earlier books, Come Back, Dr. Caligari and Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, the 14 stories of City Life establish him as the master experimentalist of his genre. He is a writer who may well be changing the definition of a short story the way Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter have changed the definition of a play...