Trout Fishing in America (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Brautigan
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: Fall, 1960, through fall, 1961, with flashbacks to the 1940’s
- Setting: San Francisco, California; various trout streams; and elsewhere in the Northwest
- Genres: Long fiction, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: 1960’s, Memory, Philosophy or philosophers, Love or romance, Nature, Rivers or waterways, San Francisco, Pacific Northwest, Fishing or fishermen
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Northwest (U.S.)
Characters Discussed
The narrator, who is unnamed though possibly identified with the author, because he is a writer and has had similar life experiences; that is, he had a fatherless, rather lonely childhood, living in poverty with his mother first in Great Falls, Montana, then later in Portland, Oregon, and Tacoma, Washington. In his late teens, he moves to San Francisco, which becomes the center of his life as a writer. A more spiritual element is provided by certain trout streams and lakes in the mountains to the north and east, such as Grider Creek, Graveyard Creek,...
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