![]() ![]() He was not concerned about making the narrative persona admirable or hip or conforming to any socially-approved norm of the counter-culture. He did not edit it out and spray the finished work with Airwick. ![]() People who criticize the misogyny or the over-reliance on leaps of faith or the lapses into sentimentality in Kerouac’s fiction are missing the point–he presented the 1940’s/1950’s male psyche whole and unvarnished and unedited, with all the ugliness intact. Someone who blows the rent money at the racetrack can be an example that’s negative–someone who follows their own quixotic artistic quest can be an example of many things on many levels, some good, some bad, some mixed, and really the goodness or badness is in the eye of the beholder. Composed 1953-1956, published 1997 by VikingĨ″ x 11″, 420 pages, hardcover and paperback availableĪlthough Jack Kerouac has always been an essential author to me, I’ve never taken him to be any kind of model, and he himself would be the last one to ever present himself as such. ![]()
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