Jack Duluoz Kerouac ha publicado una novela En el camino que ha alcanzado un gran éxito, pero la fama es como una fiera que lo devora. Huyendo de la imagen que los críticos y los lectores se han forjado de él, en junio de 1960 se refugia en una cabaña que su amigo Lorenzo Monsanto Lawrence Ferlinghetti en la vida real tiene en la costa californiana de Big Sur, entre San Francisco y Los Ángeles, donde medita, sufre alucinaciones, escribe poemas místicos, bebe como un cosaco, recibe visitas, se droga y evoca el pasado. También hace excursiones y va a ver a su viejo amigo Neal Cassady su compañero de aventuras de En el camino, que aquí se llama Cody Pomeray . Sus encuentros con los antiguos amigos no carecen de consecuencias, pues todos excepto él parecen haber aceptado los convencionalismos del mundo en que viven. La estancia en Big Sur es una prueba de fuego, un purgatorio cristiano o uno de los transitorios infiernos budistas que le permitirán volver a la civilización completamente transformado. En la nota inicial de esta novela, el autor confiesa que todos sus libros forman parte de una sola obra, «La leyenda de Duluoz», en la que quería aunar todo el experimentalismo posible, combinar la experiencia exterior con la interior. Big Sur es la máxima expresión de esta poética. JACK KEROUAC 1922-1969 es el novelista más destacado y emblemático de la generación beat. En Anagrama se han publicado cuatro de sus obras fundamentales: En el camino, Los subterráneos, Los Vagabundos del Dharma y La vanidad de los Duluoz. Y por último, En la carretera. El rollo mecanografiado original. Edad recomendada: Adultos. KEROUAC JACK Bornin Lowell, Massachusetts, The United StatesMarch 12, 1922 DiedOctober 21, 1969 InfluencesNeal Cassady, Thomas Wolfe, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Genet, Henry ...more edit data Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City 1950 , and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes. Kerouac is recognized for his style of stream of consciousness spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, travel, promiscuity, life in New York City, Buddhism, drugs, and poverty. He became an underground celebrity and, with other Beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. He has a lasting legacy, greatly influencing many of the cultural icons of the 1960s, including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Garcia and The Doors. In 1969, at the age of 47, Kerouac died from an abdominal hemorrhage caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Since then, his literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published.