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Cargando... At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico (1995)por Jorge García-Robles
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"We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic." Mexico, an escape route, inspiration, and ecstatic terminus of the celebrated novel On the Road, was crucial to Jack Kerouac's creative development. In this dramatic and highly compelling account, Jorge Garci a-Robles, leading authority on the Beats in Mexico, re-creates both the actual events and the literary imaginings of Kerouac in what became the writer's revelatory terrain. Providing Kerouac an immediate spiritual freshness that contrasted with the staid society of the United States, Mexico was perhaps the single most important country in his life. Sourcing material from the Beat author's vast output and revealing correspondence, Garci a-Robles vividly describes the milieu and people that influenced him while sojourning there and the circumstances between his myriad arrivals and departures. From the writer's initial euphoria upon encountering Mexico and its fascinating tableau of humanity to his tortured relationship with a Mexican prostitute who inspired his novella Tristessa, this volume chronicles Kerouac's often illusory view of the country while realistically detailing the incidents and individuals that found their way into his poetry and prose. In juxtaposing Kerouac's idyllic image of Mexico with his actual experiences of being extorted, assaulted, and harassed, Garci a-Robles offers the essential Mexican perspective. Finding there the spiritual nourishment he was starved for in the United States, Kerouac held fast to his idealized notion of the country, even as the stories he recounts were as much literary as real."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I really enjoyed this book. First, it was short, and fast enough to finish in one evening, while still being well written with lots of good content. Second, this book reads like a biography written by a Beat enthusiast and author, perhaps not quite a voice equal to Kerouac himself, but still a very poetic approach to writing a biography. This sort of thing can be easily overdone, to a point where it becomes silly, but in this case it works. At a few lines the author, Jorge Garcia-Robles, even speaks to Jack Kerouac directly, as if he is imagining that Kerouac is right there reading over his shoulder as Garcia-Robles is writing Kerouac's story.
The one thing I really wished for in this book- photos. As someone who has never been to Mexico, I would love some photos of places that feature in Kerouac's story, and photos of Jack Kerouac himself with his various campanions that turn up in this book. Even just a photo at the start of each chapter would be nice. But, as is, this is a very good biography on an interesting and volatile poet who helped to shape modern literature in the US and world-wide. ( )