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I capolavori
Da Sulla strada a Big Sur a I vagabondi del Dharma , il volume riunisce i capolavori narrativi di Kerouac, che già li aveva concepiti non come unità a se stanti, ma come parti di una vera e propria " Recherche dell'epoca contemporanea". Si tratta quindi di romanzi che si richiamano l'un l'altro, trame fitte di echi e di riprese, in uno stile che volutamente cerca le cadenze sincopate del jazz. Testi che hanno fatto la storia della letteratura contemporanea e che dipingono con straordinaria efficacia il clima di una stagione culturale irripetibile, rivelando appieno la straordinaria personalità artistica di uno degli scrittori che hanno segnato più in profondità il Novecento.
920 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 7, 2010
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Jack Kerouac
362 books11.6k followersJean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes.
Kerouac is recognized for his style of stream of consciousness spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, travel, promiscuity, life in New York City, Buddhism, drugs, and poverty. He became an underground celebrity and, with other Beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. He has a lasting legacy, greatly influencing many of the cultural icons of the 1960s, including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Garcia and The Doors.
In 1969, at the age of 47, Kerouac died from an abdominal hemorrhage caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Since then, his literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published.
Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes.
Kerouac is recognized for his style of stream of consciousness spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, travel, promiscuity, life in New York City, Buddhism, drugs, and poverty. He became an underground celebrity and, with other Beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. He has a lasting legacy, greatly influencing many of the cultural icons of the 1960s, including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Garcia and The Doors.
In 1969, at the age of 47, Kerouac died from an abdominal hemorrhage caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Since then, his literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published.
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December 2, 2017
Finora di questa raccolta ho letto solo "Sulla strada", libro di cui avevo sempre sentito parlare per via del mio interesse per i Doors e Jim Morrison, e che non ha affatto deluso le mie aspettative. Credo però che per apprezzarlo si debba conoscere un po' la Beat Generation e il periodo in cui Kerouac visse e scrisse.
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