Kerouac's Crooked Road: The Development of a Fiction

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Copyright © 1981 by tim hunt Preface to SIu Press edition copyright © 2010 by the Board of trustees, Southern Illinois university All rights reserved. First published in 1981 SIu Press edition 2010 Printed in the united States of America 13 12 11 10 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data hunt, tim, 1949– Kerouac’s crooked road : the development of a fiction / tim hunt ; with a foreword by Ann Charters. — SIu press ed. p. cm. originally published: hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1981. With new preface. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBn-13: 978-0-8093-2970-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBn-10: 0-8093-2970-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBn-13: 978-0-8093-8569-0 (ebook) ISBn-10: 0-8093-8569-4 (ebook) 1. Kerouac, Jack, 1922–1969. on the road. 2. Autobiographical fiction, American—history and criticism. 3. Beat generation in literature. I. Charters, Ann. II. title. PS3521.e735o534 2010 813'.54—dc22 2009049923 the paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American national Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed library Materials, AnSI Z39.48-1992. To John Clellon Holmes it is fitting that the "Great Rememberer" should have had this great friend True and sincere traveling is no pastime, but it is as serious as the grave, or any part of the human journey, and it requires a long probation to be broken into it. I do not speak of those that travel sitting, the sedentary travellers whose legs hang dangling the while, mere idle symbols of the fact, any more than when we speak of sitting hens we mean those that sit standing, but I mean those to whom travelling is life for the legs, and death too, at last. The traveller must be born again on the road.... Henry David Thoreau, in "Thursday," A Week on the Concord & Merrimac It is much easier to find fault with a writer by reference to former notions and experience than to sit down and read him, recollecting his purpose, connecting one feeling with another, and judging of his words and phrases . . .. S. T. Coleridge, "Lecture IX," in Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 1 ...