Бродяги Дхармы (Азбука-классика)
by:
Max Nemtsov (author)
Jack Kerouac (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9785389053809
Publish date: March 2013
Publisher: Азбука, Азбука-Аттикус
Pages no: 288
Edition language: Russian
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
American,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Buddhism
Series: Duluoz Legend
Another re-read. Still can't get into Kerouac.
At the risk of offending the "Beat Generation", I found this book to be quite a slog.There's lots of talk of Buddhist principles, which is cool; and hitchhiking all over the place, which is also cool. There's free love, and some other naughty stuff. While that sounds like a cool mix, I just found t...
One star because the cover was awesome.
Slap a few rhyming words together vaguely associated with your intended meaning and call it philosophical poetry. That's my problem with some of the beat poets, whom I blame for the crap classic rock songwriters of the 60s and 70s passed off as lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0iuaxvkXv4But I...
Kerouac really doesn't care about plot as much as discussing various ideas with a mediocre amount of depth. In many ways, this is the story of Japhy more than Ray, but the focus on Ray's various moments of "enlightenment" and no real character arcs for either man left me yearning for something to ha...
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