A Confederate General from Big Sur (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Brautigan
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Prostitution or prostitutes, California, West, U.S., Depression, mental, Adventure, San Francisco, Pacific Northwest
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Big Sur, CA
A Confederate General from Big Sur, Brautigan's first published novel, focuses the reader's attention on its characters. The narrator is Jesse, a young man whose gentle, strange personality has the capacity to delight the reader with metaphoric insights and uncommon attitudes toward love, friendship, and life in general. The central character of the novel, however, is Lee Mellon, a true eccentric. In the first part of the book, he tries to gather information about an ancestor, Augustus Mellon, who (at least as family history would have it) was a general in the Civil War. Jesse...
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