In Watermelon Sugar

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*In Watermelon Sugar* is Richard Brautigan’s 1968 postmodern novella that depicts a surreal, utopian commune called iDEATH through poetic, fragmented prose.

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instanceOf American literature work
novella
postmodern literature work
author Richard Brautigan NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
followedBy The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 NERFINISHED
genre experimental fiction
postmodern fiction
surrealist fiction
utopian fiction
hasAdaptation In Watermelon Sugar (stage adaptations) NERFINISHED
influencedBy Beat literature
laterPublisher Dell Publishing NERFINISHED
literaryMovement postmodernism
mainCharacter Margaret NERFINISHED
Pauline NERFINISHED
inBoil
unnamed narrator
motif colors
the sun
tigers
watermelon sugar NERFINISHED
narrativeForm prose
narrativePerspective first-person narration
narrativeStyle fragmented prose
poetic prose
notableFor cult following
idiosyncratic, minimalist style
originalLanguage English
partOf Richard Brautigan bibliography
placeOfPublication United States NERFINISHED
precededBy Trout Fishing in America NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1968
publisher Four Seasons Foundation NERFINISHED
setting iDEATH NERFINISHED
settingCharacteristic surreal environment
settingType utopian commune
structure short, numbered chapters
theme alienation
community
death
loss
memory
past versus present
violence
timePeriodOfSetting unspecified, quasi-post-apocalyptic future
tone detached
dreamlike

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