… with one of my greatest leaps and loudest screams of joy I came flying … Few passages present the exhilarating, transforming Sierra Nevada experience better. Ray Smith, Kerouac’s alter ego Henry Morley, the imagined version of Kerouac’s librarian friend John Montgomery and Japhy Ryder, the book’s embodiment of Gary Snyder, fellow Beat and future Pulitzer-Prize winning poet. This fictionalized account of an actual occurrence features three characters. In this selection from The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac describes his attempt to climb Matterhorn Peak in the Sierra Nevada. Kerouac’s best known works include On the Road, Big Sur, and The Dharma Bums. His work and mindset influenced artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Ken Kesey, and Hunter S. Kerouac is sometimes considered the intellectual father of the 1960s counterculture. Jack Kerouac wrote in a free, conversational, jazz-inspired tone that contemporary critics found difficult to comprehend, but which inspired generations of writers and artists. For Kerouac, life’s journey centered on finding higher meaning in daily existence. Kerouac was a novelist, poet and artist whose contemporaries included Beat icons Allen Ginsburg and William S. Jack Kerouac was a leader in the Beat Movement of literature that rejected the societal norms of 1950s America. ![]()
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