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Article: "I Dig Joyce": Jack Kerouac and Finnegans Wake.
- Article from:
- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
- Author:
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The literary productions of Jack Kerouac have been persistently dogged by the misapprehension that he was an unschooled and simple recorder of the experiences that happened around him. Kerouac the writer has never been able to escape his public persona as the King of the Beats. He is often seen as a celebrator of the moment who cast aside all literary convention and any sense of a literary tradition, typing rolls of first draft manuscript out of a frenzied benzedrine inspiration. Seymour Krim, for example, buys into this when, introducing Desolation Angels, he says the Beats "were in revolt against a prevailing cerebral temper that had shut them out of literary existence ...
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