Lake Wobegon Days (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Garrison Keillor
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Long fiction, Wit and humor, Sketch
- Subjects: History, Religion, Midwest, Christianity, Faith, Small-town life, Comedy, Minnesota, Protestantism or Protestant churches, Patience
- Locales: Minnesota
The narrator is Garrison Keillor, but, like Dante in La divina commedia (c. 1320; The Divine Comedy, 1802), he must be understood to be a fictional character created by the author, not the author himself. The many small narratives are skillfully connected by means of association. The history of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, population 942, is interwoven with present-day events, the narrator's childhood and adolescence, and his musings on the significance of being a Wobegonian. The two qualities that have defined Lake Wobegon life down through the years are happenstance and...
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