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Cargando... Maggie Cassidy (1959)por Jack Kerouac
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. As I write this review (on 11 March, 2022), tomorrow in the 100th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's birth. A good time to start, catch up on, or re-read his "Duluoz Legend" series! (the books which are fictionalized narratives of his life, including his famed "On the Road"). "Maggie Cassidy" is the story of Kerouac's first love, and is such a good book. Taking place when he is 16-17 years old, it shows his relationship to Maggie, as well as his love of his family and close friends and his life in school, as well as his social life. I love his "rat-a-tat" style of writing (it may take getting used to for some), especially when the characters are talking or interacting with each other. It takes place in a small town in Massachusetts, and most of the characters are French-Canadian (as was Kerouac), and you get the feeling that this is exactly how they would have behaved. A good book to start with when you begin reading Kerouac. ( ) I'm still not enjoying these early days of Jack Kerouac books as much as I did his life from "On the Road" on. But this one was a little better than the previous ones. It is about Jack's high school life, and his first 'true' love, Maggie. (well, another girl named Pauline might have been 'first', but her name's not on the cover, now is it?) Kerouac really captures the mania of a first love very well, with all of it's quirks, uneasiness, and intense feelings. The other parts of his life in this book, particularly the pieces when he is hanging out with his friends, are not as interesting. Heck, I hardly understood their dialogues at all! (did people really talk like that back then?) I also wasn't interested in all of the minute details of life in Lowell, and those details take up a lot of room in this book! I think if I was from Lowell, or really interested in what life was like pre-WWII in the Massachusetts area, this story would have won me over. But I wasn't, so it didn't. And that ending is quite a stinker. Jack should have stopped at 45 chapters. > Un autre bon roman de Kerouac, on y retrouve ses thèmes chers, la famille, l'amitié, Lowell sa ville natale, l'amour d'une Amérique de l'entre deux guerre où de jeunes adolescents goûtent à une vie d'insouciance et de premiers émois qui les dépassent un peu. Une Maggie pure mais complexe, entière mais impossible, qui lui fera dire qu'elle est la seule femme qu'il a vraiment aimé. —Danieljean (Babelio) This was another great book by Kerouac. The autobiographical details that are mixed in this ring of truth and a sense of purity for the development of his main character- and himself. It spells out what it means to have loved, someone's first love, and lost it alongside growing up. Kerouac writes from the heart here, and in a poetic style of prose that is palatable to the reader. I was quite impressed with this- Kerouac did not hold back. Through his efforts, he turned this into something memorable, and accessible, for all readers. 4 stars- well earned! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Written in 1953, Maggie Cassidy was not published until 1959 after the appearance of "On the Road" had made its author famous overnight. This book recounts the early adolescence of Jack Kerouac in his native Lowell, Massachusetts, where he met Maggie Cassidy at a ball on New Year's Eve. Few novels have so vividly and passionately portrayed a first love, and Kerouac's straight-forward narrative structure makes this one of his most accessible works. Escrita en 1953 y publicada en 1959 tras el éxito de "En el camino", "Maggie Cassidy" relata la adolescencia temprana de Jack Kerouac en su Lowell natal. Protagonizada por el recurrente trasunto en la ficción autobiográfica de Kerouac, Jack Duluoz, la novela evoca el amor juvenil del autor con Maggie Cassidy (Mary Carney en la vida real), a la que conoce en un baile en la Nochevieja de 1939 y cuya arrebatada pasión, alimentada por los celos y el desdén de la chica, marcará las peripecias emocionales del joven y prometedor atleta del Lowell High School. Pocas novelas han logrado retratar de manera tan vívida y apasionada un primer amor, y la "prosa espontánea" de Kerouac, que bascula entre la eclosión poética de un Lautréamont y la sobriedad luminosa de los haiku de Bashu, se presenta en toda su desenfrenada potencia para relatar la vida del grupo de jóvenes adolescentes que pasan los días previos a su entrada en la universidad deambulando por el frío invierno de Lowell, borrachos, inmersos en partidas de billar, jugando al béisbol o corriendo en las pistas de atletismo, enamorándose y sufriendo de amor, descubriendo las oscuras vidas de sus padres, el sexo, el esquivo deseo femenino y los inevitables ritos de entrada en la edad adulta. "Maggie Cassidy" es una de las novelas más apasionadas y libérrimas de Jack Kerouac. Pertenece al ciclo novelístico "La leyenda de los Duluoz", la "enorme comedia" con la que, a la manera de Balzac, Kerouac quería reunir su obra. Si el amor adulto hipster y beat de San Francisco fue la Mardou de "Los subterráneos", Maggie es el del Lowell francocanadiense y su alocada jerga y pulsión juvenil. La versión que ofrecemos corresponde a la edición original de 1959 de Avon Books, que incluye un pasaje que se omitió en las ediciones posteriores de la obra por ser considerado obsceno. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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