[New post] Book Review: In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan (1968)
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Desperate for something unlike any other New Wave SF experiment, I came across Richard Brautigan's surreal post-catastrophe novel In Watermelon Sugar (1968). Brautigan, best known as a Counterculture poet and the author of Trout Fishing in America (1967), spins a poetic thread simultaneously elegiac and nightmarish. More a sequence of short linked scenes, In Watermelon Sugar charts the memories of a nameless narrator (N) attempting to write a book about the community and inhabitants of iDEATH. Brautigan juxtaposes the terrifying calamities of N's past--including his memories of his parents consumed before his eyes by the human-like Tigers and the violent rhetoric and self-immolation of inBOIL--with N's tender memories of his blossoming love for Pauline.
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