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May 10, 2024 · Together with Kerouac, they are the seminal figures of the literary movement known as Beat, a term introduced to Kerouac by Herbert Huncke, a Times Square junkie, petty thief, hustler, and writer. It meant “down-and-out” as well as “beatific” and therefore signified the bottom of existence (from a financial and an emotional point of ...
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The Beat Generation, a literary movement that emerged in the 1950s, was characterized by its rejection of mainstream values and its embrace of countercultural ideals. At the forefront of this movement was Jack Kerouac, whose novel “On the Road” became a defining work of the Beat Generation.
Jan 9, 2013 · A self-description in Lonesome Traveler repeats the claim that he was “not a ‘beat’ at all, but a strange solitary Catholic mystic” who “always considered writing my duty on earth, and ...
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (/ ˈ k ɛr u. æ k /; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He ...
Oct 21, 2022 · The questions concerning the book itself, its author and a generation more interested in how to live than why – as Beat author John Clellon Holmes put it – are precisely what every reader or...
Jul 23, 2014 · Kerouac pronounced he and his friends part of the “Beat Generation.” Beat is an abbreviation of beatitude, and so the title implies, “not only beaten down, but blessed” (Johnson xii). Kerouac’s friends included many well known Beat Generation figures including Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
Sep 24, 2007 · It is sometimes said of Kerouac that fame killed him—that he was driven crazy by being continually addressed as the spokesman for a generation and by endless unwelcome requests to explain the...
