Odd how little I’ve read of Kerouac

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 00:28:23 CST 2009


>From
http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2009/03/against-constraint.html
  . . . Odd how little I've read of Kerouac. (Think how On the Road's 
become, among other things, an adventure book for teen-aged boys. Not 
unlike Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. So that two 
of the essential works of literature norteamericano rustle up into 
the academy under cover of "dismissible" genre. One'd put Catcher in 
the Rye there, too. Might go a way towards explaining Pynchon's 
goofing with the "Chums of Chance" and the airship Inconvenience in 
Against the Day--dime novel for boys material.) . . .




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