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| Original Title: | The Dharma Bums |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Duluoz Legend |
| Characters: | Ray Smith, Japhy Ryder |
| Setting: | Oregon(United States) San Francisco, California(United States) Los Angeles, California(United States) …more South Carolina(United States) …less |
Jack Kerouac
Paperback | Pages: 244 pages Rating: 3.92 | 78370 Users | 2757 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Dharma Bums (Duluoz Legend) |
| Author | : | Jack Kerouac |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 244 pages |
| Published | : | 1986 by Penguin Books (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels |
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Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums is sparked by Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life.Rating Of Books The Dharma Bums (Duluoz Legend)
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"Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sitting there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creaturs in that silence and just wwaiting for us to stop all our frettin and foolin."- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma BumsI recently started going to a weekly Kadampa Buddhism and meditation class at a local Unitarian church with a friend of mine. I'm far too skeptical to jump into or out of religions easily, but IDharma Bums is for the hiker/outdoorsman, the aspiring buddhist sage, and the lover of beautifully woven syntax. Ray thumbs his way across the continental U.S. two, almost three times. In his travels, he meets hobos, family, friends, yabyum partners, Zen Lunatics but mostly he discovers a love for the essence of nature and the power of it's awesomeness. Ray overcomes some personal demons with the help and guidance of Japhy Ryder. Eventually, he decides to take a post as a fire watcher on top of
I got my copy in Chicago for a dollarMy friends frienzied onward toward the trainI had the whole thing read by Indianaand I had been forever changed.I started, for some time, to weepabout the beauty in a lonely lifestumbling back to his shade tree, Jack founda magic trap door in his mind.The nature, she beckons, relententlesslydewy sweaters on sweet, green leavestaste like tripping the child right out of meto dance mercilessly among the marching treespush, pull, shove, stop step the hell around
Dharma Bums is set in the late fifties, in Jack Kerouac's life shortly after the events chronicled in On the Road. It focuses on his relationship with poet Gary Snyder and his exposure to Snyder's love of the outdoors and study of Buddhism. I know that some have criticized Kerouac's treatment of Buddhism, but I think those purists have missed the point, what I found compelling was the effect of Buddhism on the lives and lifestyles of the Beat poets and writers.Reading this 50 years after
I was charmed and uplifted by this reflective, poetic vision of a life of rambling in California and the Pacific Northwest, a thinly veiled fictional portrayal of Kerouacs friendship with poet Gary Snyder in the 50s. While On the Road felt like a portrait of America and the key characters often felt a bit lost and self-centered, here the action is more attuned to connections with nature and an exultant exploration of Buddhist outlooks. Like the other book it reads more like a memoir and travel
Kerouac is innocent and rowdy and loco, unjaded and earnest, a real goodfellow. I tried reading On the Road as a high schooler and was unimpressed, I was too serious and uptight. I lacked experience. This time around I get the Zen stuff, yo, I was put off at first by his attempts at telling what is impossible to tell, but he reveals himself, he risks ridicule to show how sincere he feels, and how arrogant too, like when Rosie dies and he thinks if only she had listened to him, if only she knew
Published in 1958, this book is a fascinating preview of the 1960's. Like On the Road, it is based on Kerouac's adventures in the late 1940's and early 1950's as he and his buddies helped create the counter-culture, migrating cross-country between bases in Greenwich Village and San Francisco. They hop freights as hobos (the end of that era). They talk endlessly about Buddhist concepts (thus Dharma). Kerouac is credited with inventing the phrase "beat generation" but his group disowned it when
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