![]() In the end, the book complicates the vision Kerouac presented in On the Road and other books. At times, he even seems to take up the voice of Mexico itself, speaking to the uninformed American traveler. Instead, he uses quotes from Kerouac’s fiction to trace his subject’s inner life and place Mexico within the larger context of the famed novelist’s artistic evolution. With such a wealth of literature concerning Kerouac already in existence, García-Robles doesn’t concentrate on revisiting the facts. ![]() The narrative, scraped together out of the many literary snippets the writer (and his friends) left behind, follows the time line of Kerouac’s intermittent visits, made between 19. Burroughs in Mexico) delivers a fast-paced, highly editorialized version of Kerouac’s handful of trips to Mexico. Building on his previous work about the Beats’ time south of the border, García-Robles ( The Stray Bullet: William S. ![]()
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