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There are no characters as such in Barthelme's fiction. Instead, there are names, voices, words. The characters in Snow White appear shallow, like the characters in a fairy tale. Even their psychologies seem to be lifted from a basic psychology textbook.Snow White, for example, is an updated urban version of the Grimms' Brothers figure, with more than a dash of the Walt Disney animated version tossed in for intertextual (as opposed to...