>Pynchon explicitly acknowledges his debt to Beat Generation

>>9326716
What's the problem, sport?

Don't care much. His clear influence is what keeps him from being respected outside of America.

>>9326732
What do you mean?

>>9326716
wtf I hate Pynchon now.

>>9326716
I really enjoyed Kerouac's Original Scroll despite the pseuds here who parrot the opinions of every other larper who shits on it for no good reason

>>9326716
>his debt to Beat Generation writers
but... he was a Beat Generation writer

>>9326716
The Beats aren't bad. They're just not monolithic or on par with their predecessors in Hemingway, Faulkner, Joyce, Fitzgerald, etc.

Kerouac was decent. I really liked dharma bums and visions of cody
they were a counterculture movement of a very specific time and tried to capture a specific moment that failed to stick around in literary circles, except for select works, and it makes me sad because I'm sure there's a lot to dig into there