The Portable Jack Kerouac (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack Kerouac
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Essays, poetry, letters, and miscellaneous fiction
- Genres: Nonfiction, Short fiction, Essays, Poetry, Letters
- Subjects: Jazz music, Spiritualism, Buddhism
Jack Kerouac is still the most famous fictionist of the Beat Generation of the 1950’s, even more than a quarter-century after his death at forty-seven, and here Ann Charters has collected representative samples from his major works into one large “portable” volume. Unfortunately, and as with any collection such as this, the reader gets only a taste of Kerouac from all the fragmentary excerpts and will need to turn to one of the complete novels, probably On the Road (1957), in order to get a fuller sense of what makes Kerouac an important American writer.
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