Big Sur(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　’Big Sur has a swing and a concern with living, a feeling for
nature, a self-doubting humour and an awareness of posture which
puts it squarely in the powerful tradition of American folk
writing. Stunning and vivid.’ Sunday Times ‘In Big Sur, the mirror
of the Beat way of life is hammered at and it shatters. The Kerouac
hero “cracks up” while doing the things he has always liked best to
do.’ New York Times

　　Kerouac’s gritty, moving take on the destruction of his own
myth, as the King of the Beats approaches middle age! Unmistakably
autobiographical, Big Sur, Kerouac’s ninth novel, was written as
the ‘King of the Beats’ was approaching middle-age and reflects his
struggle to come to terms with his own myth. The magnificent and
moving story of Jack Duluoz, a man blessed by great talent and
cursed with an urge towards self-destruction, Big Sur is at once
Kerouac’s toughest and his most humane work.

　　Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the
youngest of three children in a French-Canadian family. Having left
college, he joined the merchant marines and began the restless
wanderings that were to continue for the greater part of his life.
His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. On
the Road, although written in 1951 (in a few hectic days on a
scroll of newsprint), was not published until 1957 — it made him
one of the most controversial and best-known writers of his time.
Publication of his many other books, among them The Subterraneans,
Doctor Sax and Desolation Angels, followed. Jack Kerouac died in
St. Petersburg, Florida at the age of forty-seven.