Jack Kerouac

The Town and the City er en roman af den amerikanske forfatter Jack Kerouac, udgivet i 1950. Den var det første større værk, som Kerouac, der senere blev berømt med sin anden roman On the Road, udgav. Som stor set alle Jack Kerouacs værker er The Town and the City dybest set selvbiografisk, selvom det måske er i …

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, …