Begin Your Journey With Orpheus Emerged Constructed By Jack Kerouac Issued As Digital Format

of Kerouac's earliest stabs at a longer narrative, But even now, it is filled with the squabbling intellectuals and bohemians that would populate his later, much better work.
Ginsberg Leo is there, as if Kerouac always needed him to bounce the plot off somehow, How he hates him, calling him “boyishly ugly” but cant do without Ginsberg,

Much of the writing is stilted and descriptions are often trite, He relies way too much on clichés, and he finds it important to end chapters with people exiting, as though he were writing a play.


There are a few interesting dialogs, a few interesting scenes, The madman stuff is definitely from his Dostoyevsky period, And when we begin to realize that Paul and Michael are parts of the same person perhaps its not done mysteriously enough.
There are some moments, such as when Paul wakes cold because Michael is cold, Who is Helen Hmm.

I seem destined over my entire life to read most if not all of Kerouac, So this book, which is mediocre at its best, gives one a glimpse of the young Kerouac setting out to become the infamous Kerouac.
He would get better quickly, His next work would be Town and the City, which I believe is the first or second book I ever read of his.

Hitting the road back in the's, without reading Kerouac, was equivalent to rambling off without a bedroll, All those far distant memories have been shaken somewhat by this short novella, Completed inby theyear old 'beat' writer, 'Orpheus Emerged' was unpublished until, I would have wished that Orpheus had not emerged at all,
I'm no regular reader of fiction these days, but I thought this was dreadful, The writing was juvenile and the characters pretentious,
Forgive me Jack too many decades have passed by,
Τέταρτο βιβλίο του Τζακ Κέρουακ που διαβάζω, μετά το μετριούτσικο "Σατόρι στο Παρίσι", το καλούτσικο "Και έβρασαν οι ιπποπόταμοι στις γούρνες τους" που έγραψε με τον Γουίλιαμ Μπάροουζ και το αρκετά καλό "Πικ", θα έλεγα ότι μάλλον είναι και το πιο αδύναμο, χωρίς αυτό να σημαίνει απαραίτητα ότι σαν βιβλίο είναι κακό. Είναι μια νουβέλα που ο Κέρουακ έγραψε το, όταν ήταν εικοσιτριών ετών, και εκδόθηκε πολλές δεκαετίες αργότερα, οπότε και ανακαλύφθηκε. Δείχνει αρκετές αδυναμίες στην πλοκή, τους χαρακτήρες και την γραφή, μιας και ο Κέρουακ ήταν ακόμα άγουρος σαν συγγραφέας. Όμως, παράλληλα, δείχνει και ορισμένα από τα στοιχεία που θα χαρακτηρίσουν στην συνέχεια το έργο του. Η αλήθεια είναι ότι δεν δέθηκα ούτε με την ιστορία, ούτε και με τους χαρακτήρες, αν και διάβασα το βιβλίο αρκετά γρήγορα και εύκολα. Δεν ένιωσα τίποτα το ιδιαίτερο κατά την ανάγνωση, εκτός, ίσως, από ελάχιστα σημεία. Θα μου πει κάποιος: Μα γιατί δεν έχεις διαβάσει ακόμα κάποιο από τα γνωστά του βιβλία Ας πούμε ότι θέλω να αφήσω το καλό πράγμα για το τέλος. Είμαι σίγουρος ότι θα υπάρξουν βιβλία του που θα με αγγίξουν πραγματικά. This is a book that should give hope to all young writers,that no matter how poorly you write now,there is still a chance you will improve and even become famous.
In a word this one is terrible, I believe Kerouac wrote it when he wasor twenty, Having taught a lot of students in that age group, I can tell you his writing would not have stood out as among the best.


It isn't only that the book is filled with the pseudo sophistication and selfimportance that many of us fall prey to when young and fired up.
A lot of that can be written off as coming with the territory, It's simply that it is so poorly written, Here's a few examples frompages I opened to randomly:

'Paul inwardly winced, "
"Paul hissed. '
" he added gloomily. "
"Are you"Anthony breathed,
"My brother ,"bawled Anthony,

That kind of writing fills every page, I was surprised not to find some "Swifties, " You know, sentences like,"Tom pulled the nail out of his foot painfully, "

In fairness, I'm heading to the library to take out On The Road or Dharma Bums, to remind myself of why Kerouac spearheaded the entire "Beat Movement" and became so famous.

This was an unkowned author for me, I looked him up on the Internet and found out some really interesting things about his life, and about his role in the so called "Beats" or "Beat Generation".
I also read a little about this book, before reading it, and already knew that it was one of his early books, that didnt even get published before his and his wifes death.
Many fans see this book as a poor work, as compared to his primary and most important work,

However, for me, this was my first Kerouacs book, and after reading it, I became really interested in his work, and eager to read more of his books.


I found it to be a quite interesting book, but, inspite of havent read anything else of this author, I can understand Kerouacs fans, when they talk about its poor literary qualities.
For me, the story is fairly well built, but seems to fail short on its global goal, I think maybe Kerouac failed passing out his message, first because his message was a bit overwhelming and complex one, and second because at his young age, he hadnt yet developed the necessary literary tools, to do it in a proper way.
If

it had stayed just as a novela talking about the life of young men and their friends at college, I think it would be best.
Simpler and much more modest, but best,

That was the bit I liked most, The characters. Well built, and interesting. Every one of them trying to find his way through life and its meaning, The search for knowledge, or just the giving it up to vice, and to the day to day survivance,

I think that anyone who really likes to read, and is interested in the history of american literature should read this book.
But if you are looking for a really good book to read, wtih a great story, I think you better look for another book, as you will not like this one.


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sitelink blogspot. pt This depicts a young Kerouac already struggling with the competing forces of his life, which included his devotion to art, devotion to his freedom, devotion to being a good human being/friend/lover, and devotion to his mother.
The "emergence" in the story is the beginning of a tentative balance of those forces after a psychological struggle, and in fact the creation of the story was a way for the author to wrestle with those competing needs and desires.
Recommended for those who've read a good biography or two of Kerouac, since the story is mostly enlightening in reflection of those real struggles detailed in his bios.
I liked the book, it is one of those stories where it is more about the conversation and what people say than what actually goes on in the story line and what people do.
Maybe I just read it at the right time in my life, I feel like I missed something vital at the close of this short story, but I have no real inclination to reread and figure out what it was if you're happening upon this review and know what I'm talking about: please share.


Many people in the review section slam on the writing style, . . it is what it is, an early work that can never be the most perfect of things, It's probably a bit unfortunate his best work was published before this, but at the very least it provides a snapshot in time right Was there a reason this wasn't published Maybe it was never supposed to see the light of day.
Regardless, I'm always a sucker for Kerouac portrayals of my boy Ginsberg and enjoy reading pseudobiographical narratives of the beat lot.
This is my first Kerouac and although I know much about him and his period I never seem to have gotten very far with his reads.
Now this book had some real weirdos from this period in time when the Beats were having their period around Columbia University.
I found the characters in this story beyond strange yet the story although strange believable for when it takes place in a time of figuring things out irrationally.
Ένα από τα πρώτα βιβλία του Τζακ Κέρουακ, που εκδώθηκε σχετικαπρόσφατα, πάνω από εξήντα χρόνια από την γραφή του. Δεν συγκρίνεται λογοτεχνικά με τους Αλήτες του Ντάρμα ούτε με τον Δρόμο, αλλά από την ηλικία των είκοσι και τη δεκαετία του, διακρίνεται το μποέμικο στυλ ζωής που κυριάρχησε την επόμενη δεκαετία στις ΗΠΑ, κάτι που χάθηκε για πάντα αμέσως μετά. .