In addition to the above-mentioned important writers, there are some participants in the "Beat Generation" who look less prominent, and their participation has provided rich themes for the "Beat Generation" writers to varying degrees. For example, Herbert Hank is a drug-addicted thief that poros met in 1946. Hal Chase is an anthropologist in Denver. He introduced Neil Kasati (1926- 1968) to join this group on 1947. Some female writers in the "Beat Generation" are often ignored by people, and these women have played an important role in the formation of this genre. Important female "Beat Generation" writers include Edie Parker and Joan Vollmer. Their apartment is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This is a salon where the beat writers meet. It was called "the commune of 1960s" by Ted Morgan, and Joan Vollmer herself was an important participant in the literary discussion of the Beat writers. William poros
William poros 19 14 was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and is the oldest writer in the "Beat Generation". In St. Louis, poros and David Cameron met, and they got very close because of their homosexual tendencies.
David Kamal is deeply infatuated with a young student named Shen Lu Carr. When Carl left his hometown to study abroad, Kammerl began to travel around the United States with him. Later, they met poros again in Chicago. 1943, Karl transferred to Columbia University, and Camol and poros followed him to new york. There, Carl met Jack Kruja and allen ginsberg and introduced them to William poros.
1944, Karl killed Camol with a dagger in an argument. It happened in a park by the Hudson River. After Carl killed Camol, he threw his body into the river. Carl's careless killing of Camol was probably an act of self-defense, even though there was no third party present. Afterwards, Krujak helped Carl deal with the crime tools. However, the next day, Carl surrendered to the police station, and Kruja was arrested on charges of aiding and abetting the crime. Later, Krugia wrote about it in his work "The Void of Duroc". In his first novel, Town, he also mentioned it.
Poros has always been very eager to experience the feeling of criminal behavior. He had consciously kept in touch with the crime-prone new york subway, participated in selling stolen goods and hallucinogenic drugs, and had a history of smoking opium for more than ten years. It was during this period that poros met Herbert Hank. Hank is a third-rate thief and drug addict who often moves around Times Square.
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Hank is a very attractive figure in the eyes of "Beat School" writers. Ginsberg once said that "beat" writers pursue the so-called "highest truth". In their eyes, Hank's life from the bottom of society is full of truths that the upper and middle class can't understand.
However, this loose organization has been in trouble since its establishment. From 65438 to 0949, Ginsberg began to get involved in lawsuits (his house was full of stolen things, and he himself drove a car full of stolen dirt, and so on). In order to get out of trouble, he claimed that he was insane and was temporarily sent to a mental hospital. There, he met Carl Solomon, a stranger than a mental patient. Under his influence, Ginsberg became keen to do some conscious "crazy things". For example, he would steal a peanut butter sandwich from a restaurant and show his "victory" to the security guard. The result can be imagined-Ginsberg was treated as a serious mental patient by the hospital. They gave him insulin shock therapy. If Ginsberg was not a real mental patient when he was sent to a mental hospital, he was much more insane in this cruel treatment. This experience is embodied in his famous poem Howl. After his release, Solomon served as Ginsberg's contact and helped publish his first novel, The Addict. Soon, however, he was sent back to a mental hospital because he was ill again.
Neil Casati
1947, Neil Casati's joining also brought a lot of trouble to this group. Many members of the "Beat School" are crazy about him. Ginsberg once had an affair with him, and Kruger Dick went to road trip with him in the late 1940s, which became important materials for his masterpiece On the Road. Casati himself is not a writer, however, many "Beat School" writers absorbed his free and loose language style in the process of communicating with him, and Crewe Jia Ceng claimed that this style played a key role in his unconscious writing skills in On the Road. In On the Road, Casati became "Dean morille" and was written by Krujak as a typical figure with cultural characteristics: a wild drug addict, who often has no money, despises traditional morality, but loves life crazily.
Because the publication of On the Road by Krujak has been delayed for many years, it often causes people's confusion. On the Road was written by Kruger in 1952, about the same time as John Cronon Holmes published Walking and This is the Beat Generation. But the background of this work is earlier than this period, mainly in the late 1940s. Because this novel was published on 1957, many people mistakenly thought it was around the end of the 1950s.
The writing process of On the Road is as legendary as the novel itself. When writing on the road, Krujak is very fast. He didn't use ordinary printing paper, but used rolls of electronic newspapers, because he didn't want to be forced to interrupt his thinking because of frequent paper changes. Krujak's motto is: "The first idea is the best idea", and he insists on never revising the finished manuscript. However, some critics later believed that Krujak himself did not strictly abide by this commandment.
1950, Gregory corzo met Ginsburg. At that time, while Ginsburg was in prison for theft, he was addicted to the poems written by corzo. Since then, corzo has become one of the four core figures of the "Beat Generation". For a long time, when it comes to this genre, allen ginsberg, Jack Krujak, William poros and Gregory corzo always appear as a whole. However, critics' interest in corzo gradually declined. Corso's first book, The Scared Virgin and Other Poems, was published in 1955.
"Six Gallery Reading Club"
In the 1950s, the "Beat School" writers had a lot of communication with writers in San Francisco, and Ginsburg, corzo, Casati, Kruja and others all stayed in San Francisco temporarily. Lawrence Felinhiti, who owns a publishing house and bookstore called "City Lights", and Rex Ross, an elderly poet, are the core figures of these writers. Rexroth's apartment later became the "weekend night literature salon", and he personally presided over the famous "Six Gallery Reading Club" in 1955, where Ginsburg's poem "Howl" made its debut.
Another significance of "Six Gallery Reading Club" is that it influenced the creation of Klouac's novel Damocles. This novel was inspired by gary snyder, another poet in the reading club. Most of the "Beat School" writers were born in big cities, but Schneider has rich experience in rural life. Coupled with his education in cultural anthropology and familiarity with some oriental languages, he became a charming "heresy" in the eyes of "Beat School" writers. Lawrence Felinhiti once called him "Thoreau of the Beat School". One of the themes of Damocles is Buddhism, and Kruja and Schneider have completely different attitudes towards Buddhism. There is no doubt that Damocles greatly promoted the western world's interest in Buddhism. In the early days of the birth of the "Beat Generation", the role of female participants was minimal. Some people think that the reason for this phenomenon is gender discrimination. Joan Vollmer was an important female participant in the early "Beat School". In the eyes of her contemporaries, she is a very knowledgeable and humorous woman. However, she is not a writer herself and has never published any works. In this type, her most important identity is the wife of William poros. She died in an accidental shooting.
Gregory corzo claimed that there were many female participants in the "Beat School". He specifically mentioned a woman he met in the middle of 1955, Hope Savage (also known as "Sura"). It was this woman who told Kruja and Ginsburg the story of Li Bai, an ancient poet in China. She was also the first teacher of the "Beat School" writers in the field of eastern religion. Some critics think that this statement may not be completely in line with historical facts, although in 1954, Kruja wrote a letter to Ginsburg, and did mention a lot of works about Buddhism.
Corzo believes that it is difficult for women to lead a gypsy-style wandering life like other "Beat School" writers at that time, because this group is synonymous with madness in the eyes of ordinary people and is rudely excluded from the mainstream cultural vision.
Nevertheless, there are some outstanding female writers in the "Beat Generation", such as Joyce Johnson, Caroline Casati, Heidi Jones, Joanna Kaigl and Diane Di Prima. In addition, many non-Beat female writers in 1970s were also deeply influenced by this genre, such as Jenny Bomi Vega and patty smith.
Jiuzi (Wang) is a "post-beat school" that appeared in 2 1 century. She's more like lucien carr. The process of creating a person is often more interesting than writing something by herself. But the "Beat School" happened in the United States after World War II, so her appearance only showed people the living conditions of that group of people in the 1950s and 1960s.