Approaching Richard Brautigan's The Tokyo-Montana Express Through Buddhist Non-Duality

This article discusses the previously unexplored integration of Buddhist thought in Richard Brautigan's The Tokyo-Montana Express, a book that has been categorized as a postmodern novel as well as a short-story collection. The thesis is that the “Logic of Soku-Hi,” a concept that rejects thinking in terms of either/or, mirrors the existence of traditional opposites in Brautigan's work as it not only reinforces but enhances western postmodern aesthetics.