"Wills, D. 'Who's Who: A Guide to Kerouac's Characters', in Wills, D. After staying for several weeks in a cabin in the northern California town of Big Sur, Kerouac undertook a mature confrontation with some of his most troubling emotional issues, including struggles with alcoholism, addiction and insecurity. A true reflection of California ethos, Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur, captures the disillusionment at the end of the beat movement in northern California. Written sometime after Jack Kerouac's best-known works, Big Sur follows his comedown from a carefree youth and unwanted fame. Big Sur Introduction. 3 (Mauling Press: Dundee, 2009); Available He's simultaneously over-rated and under-rated. Big Sur ranks among his best. [;с|���ww^G�^&�xʼn?�f�=C��Y�˓P`*��AA ώ���F����]���G%/����-q��찰��$��O����"���a�4�OJ�2
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It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Duluoz is unable to cope with a suddenly demanding public, and is battling advanced alcoholism. "Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same personae names in each work.
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Kerouac is a paradox.