โ Scribed by Kerouac, Jack
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Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after "On the Road" put the Beat Generation on the map, "The Dharma Bums" is sparked by Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life.
Ray Smith is a coast-to-coast, freight-hopping poet and drifter, at odds with urban life and middle-class existence (all that dumb white machinery in the kitchen). He meets a kindred spirit in Japhy Rider, a Buddhist drop-out, who enlists Ray into a regime of crazy, purifying hikes up the peaks of the High Sierra and non-stop Zen Free Love Lunacy orgies. Two dissimilar monks on the one path, their haphazard, often hilarious search for the contentment of dharma, Buddhisms all-pervading, supreme principle of life, is pure Kerouac.
'The Dharma Bums' cry for a great rucksack revolution in which the countrys youth would cast off the everyday, take to the open road and live the Buddhist way, inspired a whole generation of post-war Americans to search for spiritual knowledge and self-transcendence.
The Beat Generation now looks quaint to todays loose freaks who take for granted stances that the rebels of the Fifties only strained toward. But if the Beat lifestyle and attitudes were essentially crude experiments leading to the cultural revolution of the Sixties, its still certain that what sparse literature the counter-culture has produced sings nowhere as vibrant, strong and original as in Kerouac.
ROLLING STONE
Kerouacs energy is contagious, his compassion and concern are the genuine homespun article.
GUARDIAN
Many of Kerouacs books are available in Flamingo, including 'Big Sur', 'Lonesome Traveler' and 'Vanity of Duluoz'.
Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
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