In Watermelon Sugar (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Brautigan
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Surrealism
- Time of Work: Simultaneously no time and all times
- Setting: Indeterminate
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Suicide
Characters Discussed
The narrator, who has no conventional name; he tells the reader that his name might be anything that the reader happens to think of or any experience that the reader may remember. He seems to be in his late twenties or thirties and lives in the gentle fantasy community iDEATH, where the main activities are making things out of watermelon sugar, enjoying the company of the other citizens of the town, and walking about enjoying the sights, which include many statues of vegetables; many rivers, some of which are only a few inches wide; and the tombs of the...
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