Baga (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Pinget
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Unspecified
- Setting: Fantoine and Agapa
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Sex or sexuality, Barbershops or barbers, Kings, queens, or royalty, Convents or nunneries
- Locales: Agapa, France, Fantoine, France
Characters Discussed
Architruc, the narrator. He is king of Fantoine and Agapa. He describes himself as fat, with varicose veins, a flat head, pimples, sandy-colored hair, a nose like a potato, and cauliflower ears. When Architruc is fifteen years old, his father is killed in a revolt, and his mother assumes the regency until the youth comes of age. He mopes about the palace, delighting only in a garden that he plants with lily of the valley and crowfoot. He falls in love with Baga, who is also the lover of Architruc’s mother; as soon as Architruc becomes king, he names Baga...
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