A Confederate General from Big Sur (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Brautigan
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Plot: Comic fantasy
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: San Francisco and Big Sur, California
- Principal Characters: Jesse, Lee Mellon, Elizabeth, Elaine, Johnston Wade
- 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
The Novel
The very title of Richard Brautigan’s novel emphasizes the unusual conjunction of events, characters, and places that distinguishes much of his fiction from conventional treatments of history and society. His characters are drawn to powerful figures, such as Lee Mellon, who define their own reality; fantasy, in other words, is related as fact—primarily because, in Brautigan’s view, human beings make up their lives as they go along, regardless of what the history books and common sense seem to prescribe. The results of this flaunting of realism are usually comic...
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