Big Sur
by Jack Kerouac
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Author: Jack KerouacForeword: Aram Saroyan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-06-01
ISBN: 0140168125
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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- ISBN13: 9780140168129
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Big Sur
Book Review: "Big Sur" is tragic, personal, and from the heart
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading "On the Road," I became extremely interested in
the work of Kerouac. The technique used in "Big Sur" should be
noted for its honesty and spontaneous prose that goes on and
on. He rarely uses periods, and his "sentences" are poetic
and deeply moving. It is about his retreat to the cabin of
Lorenzo Monsanto (pseudonym for Lawrence Ferlinghetti).
Monsanto encourages Jack, who has a serious drinking problem,
to live alone in his cabin for several weeks, thereby hoping
that Jack will stop or reduce his drinking. After several
days, he feels improved, as if all of his natural surroundings
and animals like Alf the Sacred Burro are animated and full
of a special spiritual force. The return to San Francisco is
the start of his problems, and the line "Why does God torture
me?" that is used later in the book is so sincere and
painful that I really felt sorry for him. In the middle
section of the book, he meets many of his friends, including
Cody Pomeray (Neal Cassady). However, by the final part of
the book, he is truly "tortured" in a sense and believes
everyone and everything is part of a huge conspiracy to
destroy him. The poem "Sea," at the end of the book, is an
example of his attempts to write the sounds of the Pacific
Ocean at Big Sur on paper.
The book, which was written in a very short period of
time, was a literary experience which I might never see
again. It made me think and realize the pain Kerouac had to
go through. It was an extraordinary piece of art.
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