Arisen to the fifties in the United States, the beat generation was a real break with the prevailing ways of life then, with a country that was beginning to take off largely supported in the consumer unconscious and the abdication of responsibility for the welfare. About transgressive attitudes, such as drug use, sex, uninhibited and free, and improvisation aesthetic issues in the story or poem (the way of their heroes admired jazz), the authors of the beat generation ( Burroughs, Ginsberg, Cassady, Kerouac , Ferlinghetti, Corso and many others) marked, for the present and future, any literary style, which only the big get, alone or in groups, marked the whole mentality and way of living which echoes persist today.
Accordingly, the influence of those deluded writers, perhaps the last authentic bohemian rebels and Literature, wants to testify Bliss (visions of the beat generation) , a book where 33 authors, different ages and nationalities, write about how Howling poems or novels as Along the way, The Dharma Bums or Naked Lunch conditioned his thinking and in several cases, their way of life, based on the journey, the continuing search for did not know quite what, but in any case outside how easy and provisions, sensitivity and common rules, both critical and aesthetic. They are, as noted above, authors of various ages, from some who could well have been the younger brothers of those hitchhikers with a novel in progress in the knapsack (one of the participants, in fact, tells how he came to San Francisco the latter part of this sudden fever of life), and others have barely come to know the echo of the legend of those types, or to warn on their pages they lose strength in his day. Composed of texts, therefore, different styles, from different and varied points of view, the overall volume level is excellent. There are stories simply brilliant, dazzling, huge, like "On the road soviet" by Miquel Silvestre , where the author recounts a trip by motorcycle in the former Soviet Union in a journey that, although shorter, of course, little has to envy to the novel on which it relies. Others also excellent, as "the end of the road" by José Ángel Barrueco , or choosing a path, " Pepe Pereza of , where with a sharp sense of humor tell us how difficult it is to follow that path opened by the beatniks, and how many times our desires are dashed against reality. "India or fear" by Ana Pérez Cañamares , chronicle of a bumpy ride, and nothing else, a hippy out of your time will never come to Kathmandu. bucolic vision Patxi Irurzun "My father, books Reno, Ned Flanders and beats, all in the same sentence" (great title, by the way). The brutal story "Footprints in the dust," hard and forceful, of David Gonzalez . The courage of Mario Crespo in "Route 23", when talking about the much maligned and ridiculed "bakalao path" with a lyrical echo beat ...
As in any joint book, of course, there are highs and lows, in this case several authors who take advantage of the aesthetic as an excuse to beat sprawl texts meaningless, masturbatory exercises allegedly lyric or malcubren file with the appeal, tiring and boring, to "not think of anything and is exhausted term. " But apart from these cases, few and surely inevitable in any joint work, the overall level is excellent and in the pages of Bliss feels often, turning a page, the vital pulse of the honorees. The echo, often near those old beatniks.
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