The Logic of Spontaneity: A Reconsideration of Kerouac's "Spontaneous Prose Method"
1975; Duke University Press; Volume: 3; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/302187
ISSN1527-2141
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
ResumoJack Kerouac's spontaneous prose is much misunderstood. Truman Capote gave the misunderstanding the most succinct expression when he referred to the method as mere typing.1 Capote used the term to disparage Kerouac's practice, fully realized first in The Subterraneans,2 of working nonstop on a book until finished, refusing afterwards to revise his language. The spontaneous prose is, for many critics and writers, Capote among them, merely a justification for mindless babbling and a disguise of one's laziness as art.3 But even those most disposed to enjoy Kerouac have felt qualms at the absoluteness with which he pursued his method. Seymour Krim, in an otherwise sympathetic essay, has reservations about what he calls the funny lightness of Kerouac's words:
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