BAADER-MEINHOF SHORT STORY REVIEW - A woman
admires a painting in a gallery where she is seated, by herself, in quiet
contemplation. Baader-Meinhof by Don DeLilio is filled with dark imagery. Such
as the initial painting of a woman’s head with a rope burned neck. Or the mysterious
protagonist’s initial comment, to the random unknown man she engages, “they
committed suicide or the state killed them”. He tries to pin her down with
specific questions but she is vague and elusive every time. Eventually the pair
makes it to the snack bar and then to her studio apartment. Once he is there
with her something changes and she asks him to leave. He doesn’t and
continually asks her to ‘be friends.’ She locks herself inside the bathroom and
listens as he makes noises then eventually leaves. She is left with an
unsettling sensation that nothing is as it was before. She cant get the
association out of her mind. As she goes back to the gallery the next day she
sees the man seated along looking at one of the paintings.
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