Summary
Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America
Although relatively unknown in our country, Richard Brautigan is one of the true and indispensable icons of the 60s: surprisingly, he was the most commercial (Trout Fishing in America was translated into more than 20 languages and sold more than 2 million copies!), and perhaps the best hippie writer. He was apolitical and not too social, trying to distance himself from hippies and beatniks, but also from anyone and anything. Due to the "fluidity and psychedelic" his almost elusive lyrics have been compared to the music of the Grateful Dead group, and due to the sparkling wit, absurdity and metaphorical works of Vonnegut and Pynchon. It was immediately embraced by the free-spirited hippie crowd (The Hunt was published in 1967); his style without style, without characterization of characters, action without action, with dozens of twisted images/anecdotes, completely wacky and silly... all this perfectly matched the state of consciousness of the "children of love". You could/can open the book to any page and you would find something silly, crazy, crazy, because Trout Fishing in America is everything and everyone and no one...
As he frantically wrote, Brautigan lived like that and, unfortunately, ended up with a magnum .44 in his mouth... Nevertheless, he pushed and pushed his film to the end, if only for that, and especially since he was an excellent writer, he deserved to be published in Šareno shop.
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