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In 1969 Jack Kerouac died a premature death. While his legendary lifestyle and unique creative talent made him a hero in his lifetime, his literary influence has grown steadily since. With "Memory Babe (a childhood nickname honoring Kerouac's feats of memory), Gerald Nicosia gives us a complete biography of Jack Kerouac--an honest, discriminating and, above all, compassionate assessment. This edition is enhanced by many rare photographs never before published.
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Kirkus评论
Dennis McNally's Desolate Angel (1979) was the definitive Kerouac life-history, lacking only a strong critical approach. But though this latest addition to the outsized Kerouac-lit industry does supply extensive criticism, it's criticism of the most adoring, uncritical, elaborate sort--while the biography is needlessly padded out with minute detail (no significant additions to McNally). Nicosia ploddingly finds color-correspondences in the text of each novel; he offers foolish, sometimes disingenuous responses to unfavorable criticisms of Kerouac's work. (""Since the word postmodernism hadn't yet been coined, [Barnaby] Conrad contented himself with listing everything Kerouac's writing lacked,"" etc.) And even writers of greater accomplishment than Kerouac would be ill-served by the verbose advocacy here: ""He was determined to blast out from his very heart all the garbage of the age, the processed shit with which fifties America was stuffed like a Christmas turkey--even if much of the time he was flipping or weeping, really weeping--and to give his tortured and grappling nation a voice, even though the job would kill him; and knowing that he had taken it on anyway, and there was no reforming him now."" As for the life-story, Nicosia seems intent on giving Kerouac the saint treatment--on the basis of his vulnerability and terrible decline; like Joseph Blotner with Faulkner, he loads up the (often sordid) details without discrimination, losing any sense of coherent portrayal. (The supporting figures in the chronicle are plaster and cardboard.) And the result is graceless, crude biography--succeeding only in making Kerouac a still-more-pathetic character. . . while unsuccessfully, noisily proclaiming his genius. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
``To call this book the definitive Kerouac biography is an understatement,'' said LJ's reviewer at its 1983 debut (LJ 4/15/83). Many other critics felt the same, as did several of Kerouac's friends. This edition has been updated with a new foreword and many new photographs. Though Kerouac was snubbed by the critics of his day, time has shown that his seemingly mad musings could have been the offspring of a one-night stand between those of Gertrude Stein and James Joyce. Essential for all literary biography collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.