About this title: Duluoz, the protagonist previously of DOCTOR SAX, has written a book entitled ON THE ROAD. Suddenly, he's deified by young people who pursue him in search of wisdom. Overwhelmed, Duluoz runs to Big Sur, to revisit his own past. Alcoholic, alone in his cabin, he disintegrates--then goes back home.
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Edition: First edition. 1st Bantam PB.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: A Bantam Book by arr. w/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Marked only by light red pineapple stamps and European penciled pricing. A fine book otherwise. 200 p. NO dents, chips, creasing or wear. Autobiographical Fiction, part of Kerouac's overall work, The Duluoz Legend, which he explains in a brief introduction, includes his other books beginning with 'On the Road'. While publisher goals changed names in each work, the author's goal has been to see each book as a chapter in the life of Ti Jean (Kerouac himself), ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Panther
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780586048849ISBN:0586048847
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Flamingo
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780586091579ISBN:0586091572
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Date Published: 1990-01
ISBN-13:9780070342408ISBN:0070342407
Description: Very Good. 1989 pb clean glossy cover, corner curl, spine not creased, outer pg edges tanned, not ex lib, no remainder mark, pgs clean tight no markings, tracking included. u82709. see my pic. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780140168129ISBN:0140168125
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. (050807) 1st Mass market paperback edition is brand new in Fine+/Near Mint condition with extremely light shelf wear. 214 p.; 18 cm. Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1962; London: André Deutsch, 1963. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Flamingo
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780007115174ISBN:0007115172
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Edition: First paperback edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Owner's ink name on inside front cover, moderate crease on rear cover, else a fine copy. KEROUAC, Jack. BIG SUR. [Charters A17b]. 16mo, pictorial wrappers, 200 pages. read more
"ok i still have a few pages left of jack's drunken manic breakdown, but i have to say that i am just not impressed with kerouac, at least not based on what i've read. i read on the road years ago, and all i really remember is that i wasn't significantly impressed with it, and i couldn't get past his misogyny. And now, 20 years later, I feel the same way. I respect kerouac for what he was at the time, the new kind of literature he helped create, the irreverence for convention, the love of art and attempts at making meaning of life in the postwar 50s ozzie and harriet world. brilliant? i'm not sure, maybe, in some way. i saw an exhibit at the NY public library of some of his artifacts, the scroll he wrote on the road with, a fantasy baseball league he created as a child, complete with elaborate stats and baseball cards. but if he was so brilliant, why was his opinion of women so low? He seems incapable of recognizing women as intelligent people, they are nothing more than sexual objects to him, only significant in their relations to men, and i can't ignore it.
but i do like thinking of big sur, thanks for that jack."
"This book was pretty shocking to me. I was really into Kerouac maybe 10 years ago or so - and I was intoxicated by him and Ginsberg and the rest - they found beauty and zen in everything, they were bohemian, alive, right on about the failings of our world, and of course wrote powerful and honest poetry and novels. I hadn't read Big Sur back then. So it was pretty crazy to read Kerouac now at his lowest - alcoholic, alienated, defeated, desperate... But of course in true Kerouac character he wrote about his despair and failure so completely honestly, and this book felt even more honest than what I remembered of his other books. Or maybe it just took more courage to be honest this time. The writing, as always, is raw and poetic at the same time, and I was often pleasantly surprised by his random observations/rants throughout the book that make you realize how deeply he gets things. I don't know, on the one hand I feel that I could easily tear apart this book, for many reasons, but on the other hand I just really loved it, so I won't."
"Thematically, the climax of Kerouac's oeuvre, and my personal favorite. In the novels which followed, Kerouac's theme no longer juxtaposed entangled, conflicting desires, and instead focused on spiritual (Sartori in Paris), artistic (Pic), and familial (Vanity Of Dulouz) assimilation. These later works may feel like a betrayal - yet the conflicts between autonomy and assimilation that percolated in Kerouac's preceding works portend the breakdown in Big Sur, and that breakdown explains the subsequent need to embrace a certain level of conformity. It is forgivable, because it is a human trait; yet sad, too, because as an allegory, it is a bleak poetic realization of the one certainty to which we must conform."
"Reading for the fourth or fifth time. Poor ti jean expounding upon delerium tremens and writing mental jazzpoetry in the woods, all the while predicting his downfall. Themes of sadness, beauty, death, and the musical nature of the natural world. After his whole shelf of ecstatic thoughtful goofs of spontaneous prose writing, one of the saddest things i hope i ever read. Over and over.
Highlights - descriptions of what the Pacific surf says in the middle of the night. "...and the waves are going "Rare, he rammed the gate rare" -- "Raw roo roar" -- "Crowsh" ... "Which one? ... the one ploshed? ... the same, ah Boom" ... And I just sit there listening to the waves talk all up and down the sand in different tones of voice "Ka bloom, kerplosh, ah ropey otter barnacled be, crowsh, are rope the angels in all the sea?"
One of the multitude of reasons jack still matters and pops up prominently to make me sit and think and smile from time to time..."
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