“Fishing in America” brought the author worldwide fame, a circulation of two million copies, and a truly cult status; critics have repeatedly called it “an anti-novel.” It is a purely modernist work in which P. Brod—no, P. Broti—Brотіган consciously abandons familiar narrative forms and immerses the reader in the domain of a psychedelic kaleidoscope of motives and images, understood more intuitively than logically.