Review-Pro-Big Sur

Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac, is a marvelous work full of contrasting darkness and light, full of shade and gleaming beauty. The style of the work is typical Kerouc-staccato rhythm tapping words into the readers head like some rapid jazz percussionist. Kerouac's moralism is also evident. His concluding poem, the epilogue of Big Sur contains the line, "No tempest as still and awful as the tempest that rages within" (241). This tempest is the tempest that would slay Kerouac, this foreshadowing of the overshadowing of his own literary prowess is one of the most prescient pieces of literature in the 20th Century. Big Sur=good read.