- “Game” by Donald Barthelme Summary – Short Story Guide:
“Game” is a short story by Donald Barthelme that can be found in his collection Sixty Stories 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 Here’s a summary of “Game”
- Game by Donald Barthelme (Summary) - Writing Atlas
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
- GAME: By Donald Barthelme
Sometimes Shotwell cannot sleep Sometimes when Shotwell cradles me in his arms and rocks me to sleep, singing Brahms' "Guten abend, gut Nacht," or I cradle Shotwell in my arms and rock him to sleep, singing, I understand what it is Shotwell wishes me to do At such moments we are very close But only if he will give me the jacks That is fair
- “Game” — Donald Barthelme – Biblioklept
"Game" by Donald Barthelme Shotwell keeps the jacks and the rubber ball in his attaché case and will not allow me to play with them He plays with them, alone, sitting on the floor near the console hour after hour, chanting "onesies, twosies, threesies, foursies" in a precise, well-modulated voice, not so loud as to…
- The Game by Donald Barthelme - YouTube
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- ‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme - A Personal Anthology
A great short story is tightly wound, not one wasted moment, and 'Game' is a breathless, claustrophobic, paranoid tale which takes place in a single room in an underground bunker
- Game - The New Yorker
When he lulls Shotwell to sleep he understands that he wants him to do something with his key while he does something with his own, but the writer says it is fair that Shotwell give him a turn
- A Great Short Story Has a Pulse: Donald Barthelme’s ‘Game’
In a 1982 interview, Barthelme captured the sentiment that charged “Game ” His words could apply to the Cold War, as well as our painful present: “The doomsday clock has been set up a few notches, I gather The way our present government is talking is absolutely mad ”
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