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...JACK KEROUAC'S been dead a while now. When he died in October '69, the Beat Generation was long gone; it had grown up, or broken down. Allen Ginsberg had taken up tripping with Timothy Leary, and had made, with Leary, his journey to the East. William Burroughs, Harvard '36, author of Naked Lunch (for which Kerouac coined the title), had moved abroad. Neal Cassady, an incidental Beat writer better known as Dean Moriarty (the hero-madman in Kerouac's On the Road ), and the subject of a 600-page character study by Kerouac, Visions of Cody, had gone...
...Scenes Along the Road, dedicated to the memory of Jack Kerouac, is a book of photographs of the men who were at the center of the Beat movement, close to Kerouac before he or they became "famous writers, more or less" and before the generation drifted apart. They are the ones Kerouac was talking about when, in On the Road, he wrote
...There is a picture of Allen Ginsberg while he was still at Columbia, a spare, clean-cut, serious, youthful New York intellectual in horn-rimmed glasses. There are two pictures of Neal Cassady taken in 1946 just before he left New York for Denver after his first visit with Kerouac and Ginsberg; they're the same pictures that Kerouac describes in On the Road...
Updike's elfin revenge includes a six-page bibliography of Bech's works as well as criticism of them. Travel Light, Bech's highly praised first novel, seems to carry strains of Kerouac's On the Road and Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March. Brother Pig, a novella, hints ever so slightly of Mailer's stylishly oblique and politically muddled Barbary Shore ("Puzzling Porky" is Updike's title for the TIME review). When the Saints, a collection of essays and sketches of the kind that often get published from the sheer momentum...
...books about college life suffused with sophomoric philosophizing and romantic despair. Then came J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and a spate of imitative books about troubling and precocious children. Since the late '50s and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the picaresque adventures of rebellious youth seeking wisdom through forbidden experience have been the dominant theme. Now, perhaps, William Harrison's superb second novel-about four contemporary graduate students and their suicide pact-may bring the literary wheel full circle to the campus scene...