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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. "The Sea is My Brother" was Jack Kerouac's first book, and was just recently released. Whether this was withheld by the author over the years because of perceived flaws, or was just a "lost" document only found in the 1990's was unclear to me. But I enjoyed it. The book involves a young college teacher, yearning for more in life, together with another young man, disappointed in life, and brings them together for a stint in the merchant marine during WW II. While it may appear to be somewhat of an unfinished novel, developed only to the point where the two friends depart on a freighter from NY to Greenland, and you're left to your own imagination to bring their journey to a conclusion. But I felt satisfied as the book ended, enjoying the setting and the characters, and envisioning the ending of their journey in a way that satisfied me. If you like Kerouac you'll like this book. Jack's formative years from High School and college and early war years. Focused on being a writer early you can see the development of his style and life through the group of his HS friends, esp. Seb whose letters, most very whiney, make up the second half of the book. Also a look at the pressures on mobilized troops going to war. We never think but his comments about the bad stateside conditions and the high number of suicides was a surprise. This is never mentioned about the greatest generation. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially launched his writing career, The Sea Is My Brother marks a pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness."--from cover, p. [2] Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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I think this story is better than most reviewers give credit to; young men with a developing friendship, sharing minor trials and tribulations that arise, whilst discussing what matters to them at the time; with descriptive observations of the surroundings and people.
Part two of this book contains Kerouac's writings: The Brothers, Detective Story (short stories, some unfinished), The Journal of an Egotist (diary entries as a student), I Resort to Another Barroom (a play), Eighty-eight Cents Worth of New York (diary), Washington in 1941 (diary).
Part three contains mixed writings of Sebastian Sampas and Jack Kerouac: letters, poems, sketches and photographs. Their shared love of Thomas Wolfe.
The whole book is well annotated by Dawn M Ward, with useful insights and explanations. ( )