EThe Beat Generation FAQE is an informative and entertaining look
at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this
fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the
repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II life in
the United States the Beat writers sought creative alternatives to
the mind-numbing banality of modern culture.THBeat Generation
writers were no strangers to controversy: Both Allen Ginsberg's
prophetic William Blakean-style poem Howl (1956) and William S.
Burroughs' groundbreaking novel ENaked LunchE (1959) led to
obscenity trials while Jack Kerouac's highly influential novel EOn
the RoadE (1957) was blamed by the establishment for corrupting the
nation's youth and continues to this day to serve as a beacon of
hipster culture and the bohemian lifestyle.THThe Beat writers
shared a vision for a new type of literature one that escaped the
boundaries of academia and employed an organic use of language
inspired by the spontaneity and improvisational nature of jazz
music and abstract expressionism (Kerouac coined this writing style
spontaneous prose ). In search of deeper meaning Beat Generation
writers experimented not only with language but also with
spirituality art drugs sexuality and unconventional lifestyles.
Although the movement as a whole flamed out quickly in the early
1960s replaced by the onset of the hippie counterculture the Beats
made an indelible mark on the nation's consciousness and left a
long-lasting influence on its art and culture. This book details
the movement a its works creative forces and its legacy.
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