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Jack Kerouac shot to literary fame in 1957 with the publication of his iconic publication of the Master Technology, On the Highway. Kerouac was termed "King of the Beats", a mantle he was completely uncomfortable with. Along with Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and several others forged a new literary tone of voice and frame of mind - it was a movement that often mocked and challenged the American status quo. Prior to the publication of On the highway, Kerouac wrote several books and poems. With the almost over night success of On the Highway, publishers clamored for his other literature and a Kerouac industry was born. Within only a few years to be heralded as the tone of voice of a new technology, however, Kerouac was aging, severely alcoholic, and suffering from a fatality of the soul. Probably his finest post-On the Highway novel, Big Sur captures Kerouac (here named Jack Duluoz) striving to flee the clamor of beatnik adulation by retreating to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's peaceful cabin in Big Sur. What commences as a pastoral regeneration descends into a personal hell when Kerouac suffers an alcoholic break down. Written in Kerouac's elegantly poetic and rapid-fire prose, Big Sur is both beautiful and horrific, a clear-eyed recollection of facing down his many demons and willing himself to survive them.
