Summary
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight.
"Big Sur's humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a suerior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplishedothers crack up. Here we meet San Francisco's poets & recognize hero Dean Moriarty ten years after On the Road. Jack Kerouac was a 'writer,' as his great peer W.S. Burroughs says, and here at the peak of his suffering humorous genius he wrote through his misery to end with 'Sea,' a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur." Allen Ginsberg
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- Title Big Sur
- Author Jack Kerouac
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 212
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2013-10-09
- ISBN 9780143126416 / 0143126415
- Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 7.79 x 5.18 x 0.57 in (19.79 x 13.16 x 1.45 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Autobiographical fiction, Beat generation
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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