Revenge of the Lawn

Revenge of the Lawn

【Editor's Recommendation】
♣ Brautigan's short stories show us, in the most unlikely places, that even the trivialities of daily life can sparkle with poetic inspiration.

He excels at observing the workings of the world and the whispers of the spirit with a light and dynamic perspective, finding poetry in the often overlooked details of life. Brautigan is a gentle poet uniquely suited to those who have suffered. His writing allows those tiny souls to face life's fury and find healing coolness.
♣ A representative of the spirit of the '60s generation, his novels recreate the lives of hippie youth in the 1960s and 1970s in a unique and poetic way, taking us back to that "Summer of Love" with its flowers and waves.
Sad alcoholics, low-class writers, wilderness duck hunters, customers of City Lights Bookstore, endless port wine and endless stories of love and loneliness... These characters that Brautigan wrote about over and over again and their lives constitute an ode to life in California during the hippie era.
♣ Brautigan's fusion of poetry and fiction, a pioneering breakthrough beyond traditional literary genres: Considered the "first postmodern novelist," these works are his enduring legacy. Humorous, absurd, and timeless, they offer a unique reading experience between poetry, essay, and fiction. Brautigan's poetic temperament and unbridled imagination infuse contemporary fiction with boundless possibilities. These works, like rainbow-colored bubbles, float freely in the air before sadly bursting with a thud.
♣ Inheriting and developing Hemingway's minimalist aesthetic, the novel perfectly presents the condensed poetry of haiku: a reading experience that feels like a puff of smoke or a sip of beer - "Brautigen is America's Matsuo Basho"
Brautigan's strikingly short stories, the shortest of which is a mere fifty words, are almost morally concise. In this age of endless chatter, Brautigan, like a stingy gargoyle, silently guards the temple of human language with pursed lips. But once he opens his mouth, language reunites disparate images, unearthing forgotten connections between seemingly unrelated things.
♣ Influenced Haruki Murakami and a generation of American hippies, renowned writers and publishers such as Ken Kesey and Seymour Lawrence highly recommended his portrayal of a quiet, gentle, and humorous personal world that no ordinary writer could emulate. —Haruki Murakami. "When we are all forgotten, people are still reading Brautigan." —Ken Kesey. ♣ This simplified Chinese edition has been eagerly awaited by fans for nearly sixty years. The English edition of this book was published in 1963, and nearly sixty years later, this simplified Chinese edition has been published for the first time.
♣The book cover is designed by the emerging designer Shanchuan, and the translation is done by a doctor of literature and a medical student.
This slender, compact 110x185cm book is both elegant and portable, and full of fun. Fudan University literature PhD student and poet Xiao Shui and medical student Pan Qiyang, driven by a love for literature, collaborated on this cross-disciplinary translation.
【Content Introduction】
"This would be a funny story if it weren't for the fact that everyone needs a little love.
And, gosh, sometimes they have to go through all that misery just to find some love.”

This book is a collection of short stories by Richard Brautigan, a representative of the American counterculture movement and a "post-Beat" poet. It includes 62 short stories in total, most of which revolve around San Francisco, the center of the American counterculture movement in the 1960s and the "spiritual holy land" of hippie youth.
These stories are extremely short, with the shortest containing only fifty words in its original text. Brautigan inherited Hemingway's restrained and concise narrative style, while also drawing inspiration from prose and modern poetry. As a result of this pioneering work, Brautigan was able to go further than his predecessors in the American short story tradition of "reducing complexity to simplicity." With this minimalist style, combined with a poet's unique imagination, he imbued everyday life with playful charm, using a touch of pathos to dispel the dullness of reality, presenting diverse slices of life, imbued with a sense of surrealism. These words, as light as a rainbow and as tenacious as stone, embody Brautigan's unique and timeless style as a mature novelist.
【Media Recommendation】
The quiet, gentle and humorous personal world he depicts cannot be imitated by ordinary writers.
—Haruki Murakami When all of us are forgotten, people will still be reading Brautigan.
-Ken Kesey Like "Trout Fishing in America", under his unrestrained and wonderful narration, ancient history, lost landscapes, and the ghost of a writer as desperate as Edgar Allan Poe float in rainbow bubbles, and then burst sadly with a bang.
—The Guardian
Brautigan's most enduring works are actually his short stories and poems - short pieces containing wisdom, innovative imagery and bizarre turns of phrase, which are almost destined to have a permanent readership.
—The New York Times Book Review
He was a unique American writer in the tradition of Mark Twain, arguably the best American writer. Only his death can bring us down.
—Seymour Lawrence

2022-01-01

广西师范大学出版社

209

9787559843661