In Watermelon Sugar (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Brautigan
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Surrealistic
- Time of Work: Simultaneously no time and all times
- Setting: Simultaneously no place and every place
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Margaret, Pauline, Charley, inBOIL
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Suicide
The Novel
In Watermelon Sugar is difficult to discuss in the language of ordinary rational discourse. For example, one cannot speak of time and space separately. If the novel is set in the present or in the distant past, then it must be operating in some remote civilization, perhaps someplace else in the galaxy or on some world of spun sugar and dreams. If the novel is set in the distant future, then it is possible that it takes place on earth, perhaps after a holocaust of such terrible dimensions that the historical past has become an alien memory. More likely, time and...
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