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In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac has left us a portrait of himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco from Southern California with a beautiful blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides a bus through the Northwest and Montana, records the blues of an old hobo, talks about the Beats and how it all began, gives his "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and defends his novelThe Subterraneans, compares Shakespeare and James Joyce, goes to a ball game and a prize fight, and reflects on Celine, on Christmas in New England, on jazz & bop, and tells us what he's thinking about. And in the closing piece "cityCityCITY," we're treated to Jack's science fiction vision of the future." "Reading now these various pieces, with all their substantial details so characteristic of Jack's work, I think of particular and how much a part of his way of being with others his attention really was . . ." --Robert Creeley, preface "Kerouac offers observations on the Beat Generation, tying it to beatitude and lamenting its appropriation by the Hollywood borscht circuit.' His advice on writing is both incisively amusing (Try never get drunk outside yr own house') and perhaps unhelpful to the less talented (sketching language is . . . blowing' like a jazz musician)." --Publishers Weekly Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books includeOn the Road,The Dharma Bums,Mexico City Blues,Lonesome Traveler,Visions of Cody,Pomes All Sizes (City Lights),Scattered Poems (City Lights), andScripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights).… (mais)
This book gathers together some 44 individual pieces, the bulk of Kerouac's uncollected shorter prose, both fiction and non-fiction. The short stories, such as "Good Blonde" and "The Great Western Bus Ride" help fill in some gaps in the Duluoz Legend and are up to the usual high standard expected. But it is the factual pieces which, I suspect, will surprise many and cause a major re-evaluation of the writer's abilities.
Here the reader can find Kerouac's authoritative views on a whole range of different subjects, from Shakespeare to jazz, and from baseball to politics and Zen. One section contains Kerouac's three major essays, from the late '50s, on the Beat Generation, and these have to be the definitive statements on the subject. There are also sections on sport and writing, as well as the complete run of eleven "Last Word" columns that Jack contributed to Escapade magazine in 1959/60, covering his opinions on diverse matters. There's even Kerouac's short science fiction story "cityCityCITY", "On Céline," Jack's tribute to the French novelist, and a previously unpublished piece on his cat Tyke.
The book has a preface by fellow Massachusetts writer, Robert Creeley, whom Jack first met in San Francisco in 1956.
"Good Blonde & Others" is an invaluable collection of Kerouac's rarer, shorter pieces, and it is most useful to have them together and easily accessible between one set of covers for the first time. ( )
In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac has left us a portrait of himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco from Southern California with a beautiful blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides a bus through the Northwest and Montana, records the blues of an old hobo, talks about the Beats and how it all began, gives his "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and defends his novelThe Subterraneans, compares Shakespeare and James Joyce, goes to a ball game and a prize fight, and reflects on Celine, on Christmas in New England, on jazz & bop, and tells us what he's thinking about. And in the closing piece "cityCityCITY," we're treated to Jack's science fiction vision of the future." "Reading now these various pieces, with all their substantial details so characteristic of Jack's work, I think of particular and how much a part of his way of being with others his attention really was . . ." --Robert Creeley, preface "Kerouac offers observations on the Beat Generation, tying it to beatitude and lamenting its appropriation by the Hollywood borscht circuit.' His advice on writing is both incisively amusing (Try never get drunk outside yr own house') and perhaps unhelpful to the less talented (sketching language is . . . blowing' like a jazz musician)." --Publishers Weekly Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books includeOn the Road,The Dharma Bums,Mexico City Blues,Lonesome Traveler,Visions of Cody,Pomes All Sizes (City Lights),Scattered Poems (City Lights), andScripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights).
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Here the reader can find Kerouac's authoritative views on a whole range of different subjects, from Shakespeare to jazz, and from baseball to politics and Zen. One section contains Kerouac's three major essays, from the late '50s, on the Beat Generation, and these have to be the definitive statements on the subject. There are also sections on sport and writing, as well as the complete run of eleven "Last Word" columns that Jack contributed to Escapade magazine in 1959/60, covering his opinions on diverse matters. There's even Kerouac's short science fiction story "cityCityCITY", "On Céline," Jack's tribute to the French novelist, and a previously unpublished piece on his cat Tyke.
The book has a preface by fellow Massachusetts writer, Robert Creeley, whom Jack first met in San Francisco in 1956.
"Good Blonde & Others" is an invaluable collection of Kerouac's rarer, shorter pieces, and it is most useful to have them together and easily accessible between one set of covers for the first time. (