“The Balloon” by Donald Barthelme

from Sixty Stories. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981.

At the begging he controls the ballooon, i'm the writter. the setting is pretty ironic, the new york city is a epitomy about the postmodernism.Although we are rodeados de technology seguimos impresionandonos
por un globo.

Is a simbol that the is no agenga beging his writting.

 The main idea is that we start see the narrator losi

If we thnik about it,

we find a work as a result of profund thoughts

iconic mark.

We have to find the meaning. We expect that the

readers make the effort to understand the work.

relation beteween people, building and balloon

is a represtentation that it is close to us.
Is touching us

Object is close= art and life go together

 We think that the ballon deserve better. Children playwith the ballon = most basic thing to do with art"enjoy"
it, consume. the purpose is not asume children, it has another purpose. We start to see that the ballon have a purpose

Reasons why people don't take advantage of the balloon. Represt the pos
derm and the people din'd trusth of what the author did.

City officer are a representation of critics.

Postmodernism literature is here

and its going to stay

Complexity of language
putting our thought into words

The sky has the previos kind of art and

the balloon is blocking this. We can not see. The
is the new kind of art that we see now
The balllon is new, is different. The artist has
there to challenge the
artistic force.

Reference of the constructaction

Critcal opinion of the balloon,
Two kinds: Visceral (emotional), constructed ( intelectual)

Narrator talks about the

change in the balloon's
position in society
"fromnovelty to an
accepted fixture (par 20
and 11)
Cycical nature of artistic
movements.
the idea of people like it,
those who hate the
rectangular street, those
who hate their life pattern,
those who wanted see
different things.
 the realise at the end that there are a purpo

Is a contrast because the author said that there is no agenda so, the
narrator reveals the ballon as an autobiographical disclosure. The personal
agenda (a diversion to keep him busy while his lover is in Norway. When
he is talking about de deinflates it means that the ballons without the
context of the absense is incomprensible, there is no meanign behind the
ballons. In this story there are as meaning ballons as many people are.
The sky represents the conventional art and now the balloon (the
new art)( is
covering the sky. The new art covering the conventional, traditional
art. Then, we see some
people who like the balloon. Artists are brave enough to challenge
the conventional art.

This novel crtizes the "grand narratives" because this novel understand that the representation isn't real, it's always
perversion of the original. There is not just one teory of knowledge but several interpretations Impossible to attain
full knowledge.