6/28/2023 0 Comments The dharma bums![]() ![]() Transitions are rather abrupt sometimes.” (Later, he saw it as something of a millstone, not only for Kerouac’s crude and overly-simplistic Buddhism, but also as a register of his own increasingly more complex identity)Īllen’s response to the book may be read here (from an article in the Village Voice, 1958 – more than a review, a full-out defense of Kerouac’s prose). “I do wish Jack had taken more trouble to smooth out dialogues, etc. Gary Snyder (Japhy Ryder, the pseudonymous hero of the book) originally responded positively (“( The) Dharma Bums is a beautiful book, & I am amazed & touched that you should say so many nice things about me because that period was for me really a great process of learning from you”), tho’, even then, expressed misgivings (to Philip Whalen) – Opening page of 1957 typescript manuscript of The Dharma Bums via Rollins College Archive ![]()
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