fuck your dfw and your pynchonu. He was the only american genius

Gaddis.

>>9376280
He's certainly underrated on this board. Probably a combination of people trying to fit in and a juvenile faux-distaste towards something relatively popular among adolescent readers. It's like when you get hordes of socialite commentators railing against a trending phenomenon. Kerouac created works that were sincere, unfiltered, and genuinely enjoyable. The original scroll of On The Road is very good but someone has to be the punching bag

>>9376297
While I did not enjoyed the Road, I agree with you and I want to read more books from him (But it's weird to find english books to begin with in my town).

dude roadtrips lmao

>>9376303
Maggie Cassidy is my favorite. I haven't read him in English and still enjoyed most of his works. I definitely need to re read them in original

>>9376280

>garbled and broken amphetamine prose
>muh bohemianism
>poorly executed ripoff of early Hamsun

Don't short-sell yourself America, you can do better.

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Right here, OP

>>9376280
>american
>genius

pick 1

gaddis is the only good author to come out of america in the last 150 years.

>>9376297
>>9376303
you guys dont read very much do you

try being not 18.

He was so genius for doing the things other guys were doing in Paris 20 years earlier.

I've only read On the Road and Big Sur. I honestly enjoyed them both, but his writing is so sad. Not in a bad way, but it literally makes me sad to read his books and see how depressed he must have been.

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>>9376303
The Dharma Bums and Big Sur are both much better than On The Road imo.

Read The Dharma Bums first.

burroughs is the only beatnik who wasn't a complete hack

i like kerouac for his pure, wide-eyed appreciation of the world around him. when reading him you can just sense the bliss he experienced from being alive.

then he went and drank himself to death.

>>9376767
He had nothing in common with them apart from being part of the same social clique.....Burroughs hated the idea of the "great American novel" the American dream and hippies/beatniks in general.

>>9376280
He's a throwback to a simpler time. He's one of the last of the Modernist. His stuff reminds me of Thomas Wolfe but Kerouac had more control of himself, and was a better thinker (not a compliment Wolfe was all belly no brain). I don't like DFW or Pynchon personally.

>>9377046
exactly why he was the only one who wasn't a hack. he actually cared about the art, the rest were just posing as artists.

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When will you hippies learn to appreciate real literature