Big Sur(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　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.

　　JACK KEROUAC (1922 -1969) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.
He attended local Catholic schools and eventually Columbia
University, becoming in the 1940s and 1950s a member of what was to
be called ‘the Beat generation.’ His first novel appeared in 1950,
but it was On the Road (1957) that epitomized to the world the Beat
philosophy. –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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