[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 573 KB, 752x1051, 1387767682886.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4395378 No.4395378[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

I don't lurk much here, what do you think of Kerouac? entry level?

>> No.4395383

>>4395378
Amazing that he wrote that Road shit in 3 days on a scroll, on a typewriter.

His later shit was some crazy, I don't even know what to call it besides too much LSD

>> No.4395388

>>4395378
I like him. It's decent as long as you're not reading it as hurrr party hurr drugs

>> No.4395519

>>4395383
This is somewhat of a myth. Read into it. He had planned out a lot of it and actually wrote at least one short first draft/outline in Joual (North American working class dialect of French that he grew up speaking)

>>4395378
Go for it. On the Road is fun to read. So is The Dharma Bums (preferred the latter actually). Of course it's all a little bit of a false "rebel without a cause" aesthetic that is a dead end, but it's fun and has had a lot of play in the US and gives you a good in on an interesting frame of mind/way of life. There are also hilarious interviews of him while he's drunk if you ever want to remind yourself that his lifestyle will turn you into a foolish dick.