La voix du narrateur dans Overnight to Many Distant Cities de Donald Barthelme

D. Barthelme's use of « dreck » has already been much commented upon and his writings have sometimes been described as formalizations of his belief in the basic worthlessness of everyday language, which only the authorial structuring skill can counteract. Here is an attempt at showing how, in Overnight to Many Distant Cities, Barthelme succeeds in asserting the paramount power of technique and structure over the raw material he uses, i.e. words, and this with a view to achieving meaning.