Let’s talk about trout fishing in america y’all
OK, what about it?So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away is his best.
>>25253907>t. plotfag
>>25253915Because I prefer my plotless novels to have a well developed structure?
>>25253921>plotfag misses the point: plotfags harder
>>25253888This guy killed himself because he was a mega loser.
>>25253925Why does he make you seethe so much?
>>25253888Haven't read troutfishing for nearly 20 years. I remember enjoying it. I read pic related recently and was impressed. Its not some kind of free-associative hippy modernity thing. Its a fairly conventional story written quite conventionally.
>>25253907Ok talk about that one instead if you want>>25254000I’m interested in reading more of his stuff i really enjoy the weird naive tone he has in everything i’ve read of this but i got another collection of his novels that i haven’t read yet but that i’m pretty sure has that one + some earlier stuff of his and i’m excited to see what a more conventionally structured novel or whatever would look like from him. i really liked in watermelon sugar which in itself is definitely more normally structured so i’ll have to see what i think
>>25254265So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away is not really conventionally structured, only by comparison to Trout Fishing. His conventionally structured works are between Trout Fishing and Sombrero Fallout, where he starts bring his earlier techniques back in. I find In Watermelon Sugar and The Abortion to be the strongest of his more conventional novels. So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away is wonderfully structured and quite unique, it feels very conventional because the narrative is that of dwelling on the past and it does it in a very natural way.
>>25253888I feel like jack spicer is in some sense one of the best sources or secondary sources for reading the writings of brautigan also love of alcohol and the strange incantatory power of mayonnaise and science fiction and more alcohol, also trout fishing is not just a metaphor, i went trout fishing and saw a trout get eaten by a red tailed hawk before but that’s not important to this um monograph or whatever what’s important are that words come forth from sources as spicer would say although the san francisco does have some roots in those gallery six readings i would argue and trout fishing in america really is about trout fishing this though leads to a tangent where hemingway’s daimon ghost is summoned and this like revenant ghost of the greatest generation stands like some figure from almost the english civil in the lake country fishing those pools anyways i remembering reading somewhere that there are salmon in ireland anyway jack spicer has or had a theory of linguistics that accounts for some of the poetics of brautigan’s prose in this novel although so does tristram shandy
>>25253962The resident Brautiganfag has anger issues. He’s been constantly seething for years when he discovered he’s not the only one who has read Brautigan
>>25254265You write like a woman
>>25254265I like his short stories & poems; his long form stuff doesn't work as well.Trout Fishing is a bunch of vignettes that aren't *quite* cohesive enough to be called a novel, even though the title device is quite fun.Lots of people praise So The Wind but I don't like the device of the bullet It's clunky and clichéd, and on the smaller scale he is very much anti-cliché.He's basically a fragments kinda guy, in my opinion. Tokyo Montana Express & Revenge of the Lawn are him at his best.
>>25253945you are a loser
