Jack Kerouac and the Literature of Velocity - Memory, Time, and the Price of Never Slowing Down
Автор: Echo of canon
Загружено: 2026-01-21
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Jack Kerouac is usually remembered as the writer of freedom, speed, and rebellion. On the Road has become shorthand for youth, motion, and escape.
But what if that reading misses the point?
This video essay reexamines Jack Kerouac not as a prophet of liberation, but as a writer obsessed with time—how it accelerates, how it fractures memory, and what it costs to live without slowing down. From spontaneous prose and the Duluoz Legend to On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Gerard, this essay argues that Kerouac’s true subject was velocity itself—and the psychological, ethical, and spiritual toll it took.
Rather than summarizing Kerouac’s books, this video explores what his work exposes: what happens when experience begins to outrun reflection, and when speed becomes a way of avoiding loss.
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