Richard Brautigan (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction)

Chénetier, Marc

Teen & Young Adult

Routledge

Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who, having become famous in the 1960s, was made a cult figure for the hippy generation and was systematically refused recognition as a major novelist once the sentimental wave of the ‘greening of America’ had passed. 
Marc Chénetier’s study, originally published in 1983, was the first book to attempt to assess Brautigan’s writing art which, far from weakening over the years, had become, amid critical indifference, more secure in its techniques, more all-encompassing in its strategy and more iconoclastic in its goals. In analysing most of Brautigan’s fictional works in the light of his poetics, it examines the mechanisms of his metafictional and deconstructive offensive and indicates the direction in which Brautigan was moving at the time.

The cultural rate of exchange cheats both sides of the Atlantic, leaving first-rate European writers unknown in America, excellent American authors unread outside their native shores.
Through these 13 essays by European critics, Chénetier seeks to remedy this, to encourage the cultural exchange between American and European writers. The authors discussed are living innovators, the critics contemporary and diverse. The essayists were asked to write as idiosyncratic a piece as they could think of, to do it with no holds barred, to indulge their particular critical manias or preferences, and to do so on the subject of their choice.”
The book is divided into two parts, Part 1 providing a general European view of American literature today. The essays in Part 2 focus on individual authorsWalker Percy, William Gaddis and Gilbert Sorrentino, Nabokov and Balthus, Guy Davenport, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard.

Critical Angles: European Views of Contemporary American Literature (A Chicago Classic)

Reference

Southern Illinois University Press

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996

Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction Since 1960 (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

United States

University of Pennsylvania Press

This is a landmark study providing a synthetic view of developments in American fiction between 1960 and the 1990s. "Beyond Suspicion" focuses principally on the works of Gaddis, Pynchon, Elkin, McElroy, Hawkes, Nabokov, Gass, Barth and Coover, although a host of other writers are also discussed. Chenetier argues that traditional generic approaches to this body of work are misleading. He rejects the categorisation of works by their writer's region, race and gender, and suggests instead an examination of works from a variety of artistic and epistemological standpoints. Chenetier's status as outsider geographically speaking fosters this approach; from his critical distance, he is able to look on American letters with a very specific and individual point of view. "Beyond Suspicion" is notable, too, for the grace with which links the concerns of French literary theory with those of American fiction.

Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction since 1960

History & Criticism

Liverpool University Press

Au-delà du soupçon. La nouvelle fiction américaine de 1960 à nos jours

SEUIL

Trilogie new-yorkaise

AUSTER, PAUL.

Frémon, Jean

Literary

Actes-sud

Brautigan accède à la célébrité vers la fin des années 60 avec son roman La pêche à la truite en Amérique et devient le symbole de toute une génération, celle des Beatles et de Grateful Dead. Il enchaîne d'autres romans, Le Monstre des Hawkline (remarquablement adapté par Dumontheuil l'an passé chez Futuropolis), Un privé à Babylone... Philippe Squarzoni adapte un texte de Marc Chenetier et en tire un portrait à l'os, juste et touchant. Auteur de quelques bandes dessinées remarquables et à succès chez Les Requins Marteaux : Garduno, en temps de paix, Zapata en temps de guerre et Dol. L'auteur laisse de côté ses livres politiques et poursuit ses portraits d'écrivains entamés aux éditions du 9ème monde, Portrait inédit de Arthur Cravan et Portrait inconnu de John Hume Ross.

Portrait en pin, en sucre de pastèque et en pierres de Richard Brautigan

Comics & Graphic Novels

SQUARZONI, P.

Graphic Novels

LES REVEURS

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