Jack Kerouac
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| Original Title: | The Subterraneans |
| ISBN: | 0802131867 (ISBN13: 9780802131867) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Duluoz Legend |
| Characters: | Leo Percepied, Julian Alexander, Frank Carmody, Sam Vedder |
| Setting: | San Francisco, California(United States) |
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Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco. "The subterraneans" come alive at night, travel along dark alleyways, and live in a world filled with paint, poetry, music, smoke, and sex. Simmering in the center of it all is the brief affair between Leo Percepied, a writer, and Mardou Fox, a black woman ten years younger. Just at the moment when she is coolly leaving him, Leo realizes his passion for passion, his inability to function without it, and the puzzling futility of seeking redemption and fulfillment through writing.Point Appertaining To Books The Subterraneans (Duluoz Legend)
| Title | : | The Subterraneans (Duluoz Legend) |
| Author | : | Jack Kerouac |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | 1994 by Grove Weidenfeld (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. American. 20th Century. The United States Of America |
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I really loved this book. Jack Kerouac, for all his iconic writing and cliche beatnick status, still manages to capture the life and thoughts of the younger generation who were simply looking for any sort of adventure. That is, they have their own dreams and attempt to reach them. Kerouac shows their growth and takes his readers through the realization that things aren't like they expected them to be. Somehow, though, even though this sort of melancholic epiphany seems to be common for hisThis is the third book by Kerouac I have read, and without fail, they all have an unusual raw emotional gravity about them. This book is short burst of linguistic invention--supposedly written in only three days, and it reads as such. It weighs in at a little over 100 pages, but is full of love, disgust, drunkenness, excitment, and the peculiar next-day regret hangover. It does not match either On the Road or The Town and the City in terms of overall narrative power, but is a strangely
In my spin through Kerouac's books, my friend said after reading On The Road and The Dharma Bums that my next task should be The Subterraneans.Apparently, he wrote this 110-page book in only three days. While the bulk of On The Road was written in this way, making it an American classic, I have to say that for this book, it didn't work as well.Here, Kerouac shows a more poetic than prosaic style. The sentences seem more like lyrics than in the other two books. Yet here that seemed to take away
Written in 1958, The Subterraneans is Kerouacs attempt at a memoir about the time-honored literary theme of relationships. At a superficial level, it is merely a novella about how a relationship can crumble in the face societal pressures. However, like relationships, one should never take a person, or written work, at merely face value. The Subterraneans is much more than a romance in the vein of Hes just not that into you. The relationship itself is something of taboo in the 1950s, Kerouacs
Written in three nights and, yes, for good and ill it reads that way it boils down to the story (according to Kerouac, a true story, with the names changed and the location switched from Greenwich Village to San Francisco) of a Canuck-American writer in his early thirties in the early 1950s who falls for a ten-years younger African American bohemian woman. Theyre both fragile psychological messes, and hes a drunk the affair flairs up, burns bright, and then his drunken antics and his weakness
I really disliked this book at first. I thought Kerouac had gotten lazy and was just writing whatever the hell popped into his mind-- and he his. And that is what makes the novel has compelling as it is. Kerouac is doing stuff I haven't seen anyone do in American Lit, and Kerouac is just such a romantic and optimist that it is hard to hate the man. "The Subterraneans" is a book about a 3 month fling between Kerouac and a young black woman. Kerouac's writing is tender and moving; one gets the
How did he become a writer?!
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