Welcome to Utah (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Michel Butor
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: The early 1960's
- Setting: United States
- Principal Characters: An anonymous traveler
- Genres: Short fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: African Americans, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, New England, Native Americans or American Indians, Southwest, Presidents, Mormons, Utah
- Locales: United States
The Story
“Welcome to Utah” is a chapter excerpted from Mobile: Étude pour une représentation des États-Unis (1962; Mobile: Study for a Representation of the United States, 1963), a larger work that attempts to render the essential quality of each American state. Like an imaginary guidebook to the United States, this work takes readers through all the states in the Union, in alphabetical order according to the alliance of place-names: From Lebanon, New Jersey, it switches to Lebanon, Ohio, and then to towns with the same name in Indiana and Illinois, for...
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