American Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...humor were the weapons of authors like Roth, Joseph Heller , and Jules Feiffer . However, other writers, notably Donald Barthelme , Jerzy Kosinski , Thomas Pynchon , and Kurt Vonnegut , Jr., expressed their view of the world as unreal, as mad, by writing...