Freddy’s Book (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Gardner
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Symbolic realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s and the sixteenth century
- Setting: The United States and Sweden
- Genres: Long fiction, Frame story, Grotesque literature
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Ethics, Sixteenth century, Devils or demons, Deer, Giants, Historiography, Monsters, Sweden or Swedish people
- Locales: United States, Sweden
Characters Discussed
Jack Winesap, the first-person narrator of the realistic part of the text. Visiting a college, Winesap accepts a dinner invitation from Professor Agaard. Winesap endures Agaard’s testy behavior and takes an interest in the book that his son, Freddy, is rumored to be writing. Freddy secretly shows Winesap his book; it is this “book within the book” that constitutes the remainder of the novel.
Sten Agaard, a professor of Scandinavian history and father of Freddy. Agaard is a wizened, older man of vinegary disposition and considerable social...
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