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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780140168129
Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack
Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most
troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism,
addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his
ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a
powerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time after
Jack Kerouac’s best-known works, following a visit to northern
California and the first feelings of midlife crisis. Kerouac stayed
for several weeks in a cabin in Big Sur, California, and with
friends in San Francisco. Upon returning home, he wrote this
account in a two-week period. Critic Richard Meltzer referred to
Big Sur as Kerouac’s ‘masterpiece, and one of the great, great
works of the English language.’ –This text refers to the Audio
Cassette edition.
Big Sur is a humane, precise account of the extraordinary
ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac….At the peak of
his suffering humorous genius, he wrote through his misery to end
with Sea, a brilliant poem appended on the hallucinatory sounds of
the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur. –Allen Ginsberg
For a narrator [this book] contains extraordinary difficulties,
for the writing flies off into inebriated, overly long sentences
that reflect, describe, or just babble forward in a kind of free
association. To keep such passages flowing while making sense out
of them is no mean feat. Tom Parker [Grover Gardner] pulls it
off….He even manages to sound as if he were enjoying himself.–
AudioFile
Big Sur is so devastatingly honest and painful and yet so
beautifully written….He was sharing his pain and suffering with
the reader in the same way Dostoyevsky did, with the idea of
salvation through suffering.–David Amram
Critic Richard Meltzer referred to Big Sur as Kerouac’s
‘masterpiece, and one of the great, great works of the English
language.’
His grittiest book…sensual and uninhibited. –New York Times
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