Jack Kerouac: to each his invisible wings

” The candle burns/And when it’s over/The wax lies in cold artistic piles/ —That’s about all I know. » The sublimated novel/autofiction begins with an ecstatic experience. Jack Duluoz, known as Jack Kerouac, alone on the peak of Desolation, nourished by Buddhist readings and a deeply rooted mystical Catholicism, receives a revelation. “When a child … Read more