Word: kerouac
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Beyond establishing the niche that Kerouac has found in modern literary and cultural canons, one must dare to ask why: What is it about our high-speed, jet-plane and bullet-train culture that makes us yearn for something more? What is it about Kerouac’s romanticized journey that fills this void...
...Kerouac Odyssey?...
...Harvard students feel up to the journey, they can catch up on Kerouac and the Beats at the release of a new documentary this weekend. A Kerouac Odyssey premieres today in Lowell, Mass., the mill-town in which Kerouac was born, and will play through March 12, the late author’s eightieth birthday...
...project has been 20 years in the making. Writer-director Doug Sharples was inspired by Allen Ginsburg, who in 1982 staged a ten-day celebration of Kerouac intended, as Sharples remembers, to “turn the tide against the literary establishment that was still leery of Kerouac even thirteen years after his death...
...Kerouac Odyssey is framed not in defense of the author, but simply in memory. It is a documentary firmly “rooted in the 20th century, Kerouac’s century,” says Sharples, and captures the intellectual struggles of a man trying to reconcile the “naïve and hopeful” with “bouts of existential despair...