music of road, 1999-08-03Some reviewers have criticised this book for having no real novelistic structure, others for its veneration of pointless wandering. Kerouak's real life certainly, outwardly, reflected a lack of structure, neurotic wandering and finally a self destructive self absorbtion. But this book opens the deeply imaginative and empathetic character of Kerouak. It is an in depth search for meaning in life in activity, observation and friendship without ulterior motive. His inner life projected into the Beat search for artistic expression and social relevance in a society with decidedly more normative and practical aspirations. Its poetic narration is seemless, almost flow of consciousness, but built on Kerouaks intense social and philosophical speculation. It requires a certain abandonment of traditional expectations of idiom, after which it flows like the wail of a frenzied sax over the radiating heat of the country's hiways.
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