![]() ![]() ![]() Family members, too, have stepped into the void, and 35 years after the author’s death, his life still resonates with them. Scholarly work exists that examines Brautigan’s career, and there are volumes of it at the click of a mouse. Brautigan killed himself at his home in the Marin County coastal town Bolinas, California.īut Brautigan, the man and his work, have never been forgotten - far from it. He battled depression, punctuated by alcoholism, and he had guns. The cosmic arc of the meteor, as well as the potent work ethic that generated 10 novels and other published writings, had been falling to Earth before then. Richard Brautigan - born in Tacoma, Washington, and raised in Eugene - took his life in September 1984. He was, as biographer and admirer William Hjortsberg noted in Jubilee Hitchhiker, a writer who combined an “easy offhand voice” with “concern for average working-class people, his matter-of-fact treatment of death, and his often-startling juxtaposition of wildly disparate images.” ![]() He was a poet who foreshadowed the vise-like, smothering grip that technology has over us today in the poem “All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace.” He showered readers of the 1960s and ’70s with inspiring spare, proletarian ideals in his novels. He was an author of such works as Trout Fishing in America, In Watermelon Sugar and The Hawkline Monster, wedged between the Beat Generation and the hippie movement. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |