Kerouac, Jack (Vol. 5) - Kerouac, Jack 1922–1969
Kerouac, Jack 1922–1969
Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. Along with Ginsberg, Burroughs, and others, he was also an original member of the group which, in the middle 1940s, became the Beat movement. Kerouac's own work was an effort to "invent a new prose," specifically American, which was to reflect in its spontaneity and formlessness the vastness and beauty of this country. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.; obituary, Vols. 25-28.)
Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody is at once an epitaph and a rhapsodic celebration of the American beat world of the late 1940s and early 1950s. A long, voracious and uneven novel, it is an important addition to his published work, though for any but the initiate or aspiring novice it is a book to be left well alone, or blasted through at a single sitting. Never previously published in its entirety, it has been known only as an underground legend. Kerouac wrote the novel between...
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