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by Lee Milazzo?
Richard Brautigan has also enjoyed considerable critical success, especially for such works as Trout Fishing in America, The Hawkline Monster and Dreaming of Babylon, among others. Each of his 19 books, in fact, has revealed Brautigan's admirable ability to match his very personal style to his varied subjects.
The Tokyo-Montana Express is an excellent example of Brautigan's art of reduction. Countless brief vignettes — some "chapters" are only a few sentences in length — alternately present Brautigan's perceptions of Japan and Montana. He covers a wide variety of subjects, and clearly one of his themes is the striking contrast between the two cultures. Another theme, too, seems to be Brautigan's nostalgic feeling for our own partially unsullied West.
Then we encounter this chapter, "Cold Kingdom Enterprise?," which we quote in full: "Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever."
Is Brautigan putting us on? Is he serious? We are not sure what it all adds up to, but it does mean fun reading — sometimes.
Dallas Morning News
November 23, 1980
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