Angels of desolation – Jack Kerouac

Critique : This novel reveals the back of the decor. Nevertheless, We know Jack Kerouac for On the road. Similarly, With Angels of desolationwe follow Jack Duluoz. For example, protagonist and especially Avatar by Jack Kerouac, throughout the year preceding the release of the book which will ensure its fame. The story angels desolation – jack kerouac starts with an almost mystical long stage in the mountains, where Jack is alone in front of himself. Then when the summer season is coming to an end, Jack goes back to town. There. it is quite the opposite: he finds the madness and the urgency of the lifestyle of those that we will baptize the poets of the Beat Generation, between the United States and Mexico. Comes a third part where trips accelerate: Tangier. Paris, London and return to the United States, North and South, before a harsh conclusion following the exit from On the road.
Jack Kerouac does not hide anything from us. His life becomes as transparent as his thoughts. The blows of madness, the moments of doubt, the pangs of diving in drugs, prostitutes and voluntary poverty are linked. All of this is told by Jack Duluoz. We are in his head, to follow the angels desolation – jack kerouac thread of his thoughts, with analogies or jumps over time. Christian Buddhist. an improvisory poet, he sows haikus in his text, cut into hundreds of paragraphs all numbered, like the notes of a logbook. This book is the daily life of Jack Duluoz-Kerouac on this year 1956. told with hindsight, since Angels of desolation was released in 1966, ten years after the facts.
This distancing does not detract from the spontaneity of the narration. It brings a disenchantment since Jack Duluoz already feels the wind. he knows that this life can only last a time. And after? This deep doubt. which rubs shoulders with a firm belief in a world where all existence has its value, is what makes the book more ambiguous, more touching. Jack walks at the edge of the great Buddhist void. yet, it is a love of deep humanity, with what is most beautiful angels desolation – jack kerouac and more abject, which animates the protagonist and behind him the author.

Angels of desolation is a striking novel that makes us live the daily life of Beat poets from the inside. with all its contradictions, without filter.