Snow White | Social Concerns
Snow White, Barthelme's second book and first novel, brilliantly combines metafictional techniques with a highly refracted critique of contemporary culture. Approached one way, the novel is about democratization in all its manifestations — political, sexual, economic, literary, and above all linguistic. Equality may be the novel's subject, perhaps even its aim, but it is an equality that invariably becomes reductive, in which nothing and no one is any better than anything or anyone else. The desire for equality may easily degenerate (just by substituting and deleting a few letters of...
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