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Really beautiful writing. I felt completely transported and the characters were written so realistically that I thought, for a moment, that this was an auto-biography and not a novel that captures the spirit of the 1950s lost man--but it did that beautifully. The plot can be hard to follow and centers around the unraveling of Dean, the antagonist, but the manic style contributes to the overall atmosphere of the book. Gorgeous work.
"A quel tempo danzavano per le strade come pazzi, e io li seguivo a fatica come ho fatto tutta la vita con le persone che mi interessano, perchè le uniche persone che esistono per me sono i pazzi, i pazzi di voglia di vivere, di parole, di salvezza, i pazzi del tutto e subito, quelli che non sbadigliano mai e non dicono mai banalità ma bruciano, bruciano, bruciano come favolosi fuochi d’artificio gialli che esplodono simili a ragni sopra le stelle e nel mezzo si vede scoppiare la luce azzurra e
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After I read it, I found out Kerouac had written non-stop the entire book, no doubt with the help of pharmaceuticals. This could be it's own genre--drug induced pablum. Maybe it was avante garde in the 50s, but it fell flat for me.
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