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Title: Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters: 1940-1956 by Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters ISBN: 0-14-023444-6 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An essential read to understanding the genesis of his work.
Comment: Much has been made about Kerouac's philosophy of spontaneous prose. The immediacy of it's impact. It's flawed honesty. The sheer weight of his all-too-real emotion as it flowed out of him and stained the page. Like Van Gogh, Kerouac was an artist who did not concern himself with "sentimental melancholy" but looked to express the true sorrow and joy of his life in his works. These letters are a vital piece of the Kerouac puzzle, fore they show us the genesis of the man's method and style. From his early emulation of novelist Thomas Wolfe, through his meeting of first Allan Ginsburg, who was really more of an intellectual influence than a literary one, and subequently, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. It was Cassady's influence that was paramount to Kerouac's creation of his style, and in his letters to Neal, we are shown first hand how Jack sought to withold nothing, to seek out the details of living. These letters are startling in their honesty and emotion. They reveal a man who sought not only a vision of and for himself, but for the rest of us living, dead, and unborn. Maybe he was uncomfortable in his own skin, maybe he couldn't cut the apron strings that bound and stunted him emotionally to his mother, but these letters prove the essentialness of the artist in this world. Those souls like Kerouac who sought to express the unknown, that the reasons for why we all go on living in this world where "all life is suffering," outweigh the reasons why we should just give up and not live at all. Jack may have suffered too much, smoked too much, and drank himself to an early, lonesome grave, but he left behind works of beauty and sadness that changed the landscape of modern literature, whose directionless direction sought the innocent, lost heart in many of us. Like Jack said, one must "live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry."
Rating: 5
Summary: The screen-plays of Kerouac's life
Comment: Having read most all of Kerouac's published work, reading this book is like finding the keys to the locks. Jack's and other letters provide deep insights into his life, his feelings and all that followed into Jack's novels, poems and stories. Much more than a diary, this book serves almost as reference material for reading his other works. The letters pre-On The Road and post-Big Sur, opens up your eyes to the life he was leading, it is here that you see the fluid motion of his life falling into his work. A must have for any JK bookshelve.
Rating: 5
Summary: I dig this book
Comment: If one wants to dig deep into kerouac then this is how. Everything begins to form from reading this. You find Jack inside yourself screaming to come out. You hear his voice and feel his every tear, smile, and high that he has felt. I recommend this to anyone who wants to take a risk in believing in someone with different views then we have today.
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Title: Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969 by Ann Charters ISBN: 0140296158 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson ISBN: 0141001879 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg by Carolyn Cassady ISBN: 014015390X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0802130607 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0802130747 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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