1st Edition

Richard Brautigan

By Marc Chénetier Copyright 1983
98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who, having become famous in the 1960s, was made a cult figure for the hippy generation and was systematically refused recognition as a major novelist once the sentimental wave of the ‘greening of America’ had passed. Marc Chénetier’s study, originally published in 1983, was the first book to... Read more

General Editors’ Preface.  Acknowledgements.  A Note on the Texts.  1. Censors and Censers, Minors and Miners  2. Entrapments and Liberations  3. The Driftwood Artist  4. Libraries and Laboratories: A Gallery of Monsters  5. Strip (Under) Mining  6. The Reel World.  Notes.  Bibliography.

Biography

Marc Chénetier