Revenge of the Lawn Author: Richard Brautigan Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press Original title: Revenge of the Lawn

【Editor's recommendation】

♣ Brautigan’s short stories tell us that even the most unlikely of places can sparkle with poetic inspiration in trivial daily life

He is good at observing the operation of the world and the whispers of the spirit from a light and agile perspective, and finding poetry in the details of life that we ignore. Brautigan is a gentle poet who belongs to those who have been devastated. His writing allows those tiny souls to face the fury of life and immerse themselves in the coolness of healing.

♣ A representative of the spirit of the '60s generation, his novels reproduce the life of hippie youth in the 1960s and 1970s in a unique and poetic way, taking us back to the "Summer of Love" with flowers and waves.

Sad alcoholics, low-level writers, wilderness duck hunters, customers of City Lights Bookstore, never-ending port wine and endless stories of love and loneliness...these characters and their lives that Brautigan wrote about over and over again constitute an ode to life in California during the hippie era.

♣ The fusion of poetry and fiction, a pioneering breakthrough in traditional literary styles: Brautigan is considered the "first postmodern novelist", and these works are his masterpieces.

Humorous, absurd, and meaningful, this is a unique reading experience between poetry, essays, and novels. Brautigan's poetic temperament and unconstrained imagination inject infinite possibilities into contemporary novel writing. These works are like some rainbow-colored bubbles, floating freely in the air, and then bursting sadly with a bang.

♣ The inheritance and development of Hemingway's minimalist aesthetics, the condensed poetry of haiku is perfectly presented in the novel: a reading experience of a puff of smoke or a sip of beer - "Brautigen is the American Matsuo Basho"

The shortest of these works is only fifty words long. For Brautigan, "simplicity" is almost moral. In this era of endless chatter, Brautigan is like a stingy gargoyle, silently guarding the palace of human language with his lips pursed; but once he opens his mouth, language gathers disparate images together again, unearthing the forgotten connections between seemingly unrelated things.

♣ Influenced Haruki Murakami and a generation of American hippies, and was highly recommended by famous writers and publishers such as Ken Kesey and Seymour Lawrence

The quiet, gentle and humorous personal world he depicts is something that ordinary writers cannot imitate. - Haruki Murakami

When all of us are forgotten, people are still reading Brautigan. --Ken Kesey

♣The simplified Chinese version was introduced and published for the first time, and fans have been looking forward to it for nearly 60 years

The English version of this book was published in 1963, and nearly sixty years later, the simplified Chinese version was translated and published for the first time.

♣The new designer Shanchuan is responsible for the book cover design, and the translators with a doctorate in literature and medical students jointly translate the book.

The 110*185 slender small format is beautiful, portable and interesting. Fudan University literature doctor, poet Xiao Shui and medical student Pan Qiyang, full of love for literature, collaborated across disciplines to translate the book.

【Content Introduction】

"This would probably be a funny story if it weren't for the fact that people all need 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 mecca" of hippie youth.

These stories are very short, with the shortest original text having only fifty words. Brautigan inherited Hemingway's restrained and concise narrative style, and drew inspiration from prose and modern poetry. As a result of this pioneering development, Brautigan was able to go further than his predecessors in the American short story tradition of "simplifying the complex". With this minimalist style and the poet's unique imagination, he wrote about daily life in a fun way, using sad humor to sweep away the dullness of reality for readers, presenting a variety of slices of life, and full of surreal interest. These words, as light as rainbows and as tenacious as stones, show Brautigan's unique and meaningful 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 were forgotten, people were still reading Brautigan.

—Ken Kesey

As in "Trout Fishing in America", under his unrestrained and wonderful narrative, 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, in fact, his short stories and poems—short passages containing wit, innovative imagery, and bizarre turns of phrase that 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, the best American writer ever. Only his death can bring us down.

—Seymour Lawrence

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