A Confederate General from Big Sur
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| Author | Richard Brautigan |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Grove Press |
| Publication date | January 22, 1964 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 159 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| OCLC | 173964 |
| Preceded by | NA |
| Followed by | Trout Fishing in America |
A Confederate General From Big Sur is Richard Brautigan's first novel, published in 1964.
[edit] Plot summary
The story takes place in 1957. A man named Lee Mellon believes he is a descendent of a Confederate general who was originally from Big Sur. This general is not in any books or records and there is so far no proof of his existence. Although Mellon meets a drifter from the Pacific Northwest who has also heard of this general. Mellon seeks the truth of his own modern-day war against the status quo of the Union states.
The moral of the story is the domination of mind over reality.
Price Dunn, one of Brautigan's friends, gave him the idea for the novel's protagonist Lee Mellon.
Brautigan finished the novel in 1961 but it was not published until January 22, 1964. The story had no success and dropped in sales and made very little money. However, in 1966, Paramount Pictures attempted to make it a film starring Burt Lancaster as Lee Mellon and Steve McQueen as the drifter. The film adaption however never happened.
[edit] References
- Brautigan, Richard (1964). A Confederate General From Big Sur. California: ISBN 0-224-61923-3
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