By Gregory Stephenson
In those severe essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a trip in the course of the literature of the Beat iteration: a trip encompassing that universal ethos of Beat literature—the passage from darkness to mild, from fragmented being towards wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. He travels via Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, following Kerouac’s quests for identification, neighborhood, and religious wisdom. He examines Allen Ginsberg’s use of transcendence in “Howl,” discovers the Gnostic imaginative and prescient in William S. Burroughs’s fiction, and reports the mythic, visionary energy of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry. Stephenson additionally presents unique examinations of the writing of lesser-known Beat authors: John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, Richard Fariña, and Michael McClure. He explores the parable and the secret of the literary legend of Neal Cassady. The ebook concludes with a glance on the universal features of the Beat writers—their use of primitivism, shamanism, delusion and magic, spontaneity, and improvisation, all of which led them to a brand new idiom of cognizance and to the growth of the parameters of yankee literature.
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On Desolation Peak he experiences spiritual revelations and forms resolutions for a new life. At the end of his term of service as a lookout he prepares to descend and reenter the life of the world, hoping to hold in his mind "the vision of the freedom of eternity . . " (190), the hope, and the love of God that he has gained in silence and solitude on his mountaintop. The joyous affirmation of The Dharma Bums - its exuberance, zest, and humor, its wisdom and optimism-would seem to make it a fitting conclusion to The Duluoz Legend.
14); he is "a great new hero of American culture" (27). , for example, The Ascent of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross and The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton). The image is first introduced into the novel through the poems of Han Shan (to whom the novel is dedicated). Japhy is translating the thousand-yearold Cold Mountain poems of this Chinese poet and he reads some verses to Ray: "Climbing up Cold Mountain path, Cold Mountain path goes on and on . . " (18-19). In this way mountains become associated with tran- 38 Kerottac's Duluoz Legend scendent vision.
There's always more, a little further-it never ends. They sought to find new phrases . . They writhed and twisted and blew. Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy. They found it, they lost, they wrestled for it, they found it again . . " (99). This pattern of finding, losing, and struggling to find again is germane not only to On the Road but to The Duluoz Legend as a whole. Sal's initiation proceeds by single events and insights as he travels the road.