The Dharma bums
by Jack Kerouac
3.9
(170 ratings)187 pages1958VikingISBN 9780670019939
ClassicsAdventureFictionLiteratureGeneralmysteriousCharacter drivenStrong Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersNot Diverse CharactersAlcoholismsuicideHomophobiaRacial slursAmerican fictionBeat generationBeatBuddhismfiction
Adventurouschallengingreflectivemedium
About this book
Published just one year after On The Road, this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Viking
- Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 187
- ISBN
- 9780670019939
- Language
- en
About Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
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