"I Dig Joyce": Jack Kerouac and Finnegans Wake.

Jack Kerouac was an informed, sophisticated writer, and far more complex than the simple recorder of experience he is often portrayed as. Kerouac felt his most significant literary influence was James Joyce, and his fiction and letters are full of allusions to Joyce. Duluoz, a name Kerouac used to refer to his protagonists as well as himself, was derived from Joyce's character Stephen Dedalus.

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 ...

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