Recenze The Beat Generation and Counterculture

Raj Chandarlapaty has emerged as one of the primary young scholars leading a probing reassessment of the seminal contributions of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. His extensive archival research, including previously unconsidered letters, places them and their work in a context much larger and diverse than heretofore considered. ... It is fitting that the publication of this book coincides with the fifty-year anniversary of On the Road and Naked Lunch . Newcomers to the rich repository of aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural values in these landmark narratives will profit handsomely from the depth and breadth of research and insight between the covers of this stimulating scholarly achievement. (Phillip Sipiora, Professor of English and Film Studies, University of South Florida) schovat popis