A Confederate General from Big Sur (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Brautigan
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: San Francisco and Big Sur, California
- 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
Characters Discussed
Lee Mellon, an unemployed, twenty-three- year-old iconoclast who claims to be a descendant of a Confederate general. Assertive, apolitical, unreflective, and hedonistic, Lee is an existential rebel, a “rebel without a cause,” who pursues independence and pleasure with the energetic determination of a military campaign. Amoral and self-centered, Lee manages to survive by panhandling, stealing, extorting, and generally taking advantage of the people he meets. Because none of these techniques is very successful, Lee often must rely on his considerable...
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