The subject may be catchy, the publication may be timely, but what keeps the book going is the power and beauty of the writing.įirst off, it should be realized that Kerouac is not writing about the present-day adolescent. Finally, and this is what makes the novel really important, what gives it that drive is a genuine, new, engaging and exciting prose style. On the Road has the kind of drive that blasts through to a large public. I don’t think this will happen this time. Kerouac has written one other novel, The Town and the City, but, although it got considerable praise, it seems never to have reached many readers. It is by a new author, the best prose representative of the San Francisco Renaissance which has created so much hullabaloo lately. It is about something everybody talks about and nobody does anything about - the delinquent younger generation. Whatever else it is, and whether good or bad, this is pretty sure to be the most “remarkable” novel of 1957. 1, 1957 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle … This review of Kerouac’s famous novel, by poet & Beat mentor Kenneth Rexroth, comes from the Sept. Jat 1:13 am ( Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Rexroth, Poetry & Literature, Reviews & Articles, The Beats)
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