Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (972 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140296158 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 608 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. Documenting his continuing development as a writer and his travels, love affairs, and complicated family life, the letters also reveal Kerouac's amazing courage in the force of criticism and his never-ending quest to be the best writer possible.Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957-1969 offers unparalleled insight into the life and mind of this giant of the American landscape.. This second and final volume, comprising letters written between 1957, the year On the Road was publis
Devotees of those novels can troll for their favorite episodes among Kerouac's complaints, requests, loans, repayments, reports, retorts, rebukes and resolutions. Kerouac's "craft of spontaneous prose" (in Charters's words) let him use his letters as rough drafts for some of his autobiographical fiction. The years 1957-1960, the height of Kerouac's career, occupy more than half the volume. . "When I write a book it's just a chapter in the whole story," a 1960 missive to Neal Cassady explains, "but there wd be no literature in the world safe to say i would rather read than my own remembrance of things." Editor Chart
One of America's Best greenhornet It was always an annoyance to Jack that he wasn't considered one of America's "major" writers and hopefully the belated interest in the last years have done much to put that to rest. Kerouac was not only On the Road and the Dharma Bums. He wrote many wonderful novels And some of his poetry, especially his haikus, I personally feel were top notch, little Emily Dickinson (as he himself would put it) gems. But what a sad, funny book this is! Boy, has any wr. "A Literary Document of Great Worth" according to C. Middleton. For any biographer or historian the original letters of the subject is a valuable and extremely important source of information in order to gain insight into the time period, and/or the person under study.In part 2 of Kerouac's Selected Letters, the text truly gives the student or curious, a penetrating look into this enigmatic and ultimately tragic American author. For many, Jack Krerouac represents an important shift in American literature but also a s. Kerouac.in his own words. kerouac's ghost First, the recommendation is to read the companion book, and predecessor, Selected Letters: 1940 - 1956, before starting this one. Both books are really two volumes of the same story.Those familiar with Kerouac's writing will recognize the characters, scenes and events from the letters as the basis for his groundbreaking novels. Via his letters, you get the unvarnished versions of the later quasi-fictional accounts (and the legend aside, Kerouac's novels
Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.Ann Charters is the editor of The Portable Sixties Reader, The Portable Jack Kerouac, two volumes of Jack Kerouac's Selected Letters, and Beat Down to Your Soul. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. She teaches at the University of Connecticut. Jack Kerouac(1922-1