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The Beats

By Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor (Illustrator)

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| Hardcover | 9788492891108

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En los años cincuenta Nueva York era el lugar idóneo para que Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac y William S. Burroughs urdieran una amistad basada en la experimentación literaria, el uso de las drogas, la libertad sexual y el jazz. Su poesía y su prosa tenían el ritmo vehemente de la contracultura. El cContinue

En los años cincuenta Nueva York era el lugar idóneo para que Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac y William S. Burroughs urdieran una amistad basada en la experimentación literaria, el uso de las drogas, la libertad sexual y el jazz. Su poesía y su prosa tenían el ritmo vehemente de la contracultura. El creador de American Splendor, Harvey Pekar, y el dibujante Ed Piskor ofrecen un collage biográfi co de los autores de En el camino, Aullido o El almuerzo desnudo. El resultado es un tributo visual tan lúcido y original como la generación que lo ha inspirado.

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  • The Mad Ones

    The writers of the Beat Generation had the good fortune to give themselves a name and to write extensively about their lives, in novels like Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and William Burroughs’s “Junkie,” in poems like Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and, lat ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Unbeatific

    This is a black and white graphic novel about the Beat writers, mostly written by Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Ed Piskor, with major sections on the three big writers – Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg – and further shorter entries - varying from ... (read full critics)

    3ammagazine published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • Libros en Español
  • Hardcover 198 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 8492891106
  • ISBN-13: 9788492891108
  • Publisher: 451 editores
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2011
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