01709    a2200361   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001500151072001600166072001500182072001300197072001300210072001400223072001500237072002100252072002100273072002100294072002100315072002100336072001800357100002100375245002200396250000600418260003200424300000900456520086700465999001501332036734735020250317100414.0250312042021GB                   eng    a9780367347352  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 32.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aDSA2thema7 aDSK2thema7 aDSBH2thema7 a1KB2bisac7 aDSA2bic7 aDSK2bic7 aDSBH2bic7 a1KB2bisac7 aLIT0240502bisac7 aLIT0000002bisac7 aLIT0090002bisac7 aLIT0200002bisac7 aLIT0250002bisac7 a813.542bisac1 aMarc Chénetier10aRichard Brautigan  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20211001  a98 p  bFew 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.  c2666d2666