5/30/2023 0 Comments Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac![]() Just keep on reading – he soon comes down, and the introspective version of Kerouac that we see at the start of the novel quickly readjusts himself to life amongst his old friends. While Desolation Angels starts off slowly, it helps to convey the sense of loneliness and isolation that Kerouac was feeling while he whiled away the days on top of a mountainside. ![]() Apparently, this is because of the objections of some of his publishers. Frequent readers will notice that the aliases that he uses sometimes change from novel to novel – Cody Pomeray, for example, was Dean Moriarty in On the Road. While his books are, essentially, non-fiction, occasional additions and the changing of the names is enough to qualify the work as semi-autobiographical. ![]() ![]() Actually, this approach compliments Kerouac’s storytelling well, as the pauses help to make the novel feel more like a conversation.Īs with most of Kerouac’s writing, this was difficult to categorise – in the end, I had to plump for both ‘fiction’ and ‘non-fiction’. The book is split in to two sections, and these two sections are split further in to dozens of short chapters. Kerouac’s style can be difficult to concentrate on for a long period of time, but it was just right for me to read on the bus on my daily commute. ![]()
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