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In 1961, Kerouac wrote Big Sur in ten days, one of his most notable books. It is a strange and brilliant dialogue between Jack Duluoz - the narrator - and his poet friend, Ben Fagan. They talk about women, drinking, life, and madness. Big Sur is a deeply desperate and dead-end monody. ‘...On my deathbed I will remember that day by the creek and I will have forgotten the day that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought my book, I will remember the old green T-shirt from the junkyard and will forget the sapphire capes... Perhaps this is the best way to go to Paradise’... (From the presentation of the edition)
In the summer of 1961, Jack Kerouac, having definitively closed his accounts with the road, returned to Florida, the sanatorium of America, where his family had settled. Indifferent now to what this vast and uncontrollable country still had to offer him, he once again resorted to his favorite demon, the vengeful alcohol. For several weeks, his only companion was a bottle of Johnny Walker every day [...] In the autumn, he restricted his thirst to a few glasses of Martell a day, read Balzac and Dostoevsky, and lost some weight. One day in October, which was always his most creative month, he took a quantity of benzedrine and rushed to his typewriter...
[Excerpt from the text of the preface]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- Publisher
- Aiolos
- Original Title
- Big Sur
- Publishers
- Aeolus
- Skroutz Book Awards 2026
- -
- Type
- Travel Literature
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 285
- Release Date
- 3/2010
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Dimensions
- 12x18 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789607267139
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