Reviews for The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs

The average rating for The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-20 00:00:00 Uyguyiu U�oipok "Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our flesh and blood and bones." -JK

Review # 2 was written on 2015-05-02 00:00:00 Mary Fromson Happy to discover this book: "It was trying to look at the world in a new light, trying to look at the world in a way that gave it some meaning. Trying to find values . . . that were valid. And it was through literature that all this was supposed to be done." [Lucien Carr] In attempting to give the world "some meaning," the Beats inhabited a religious world of their own construction. (p. 129). My interest lies in Kerouac, and I especially like this passage, "Kerouac sacrificed himself to his writing, allowing his identity as an artist to subsume his entire being . . ." and relates Jack's new calling, where "flesh became spirit." (p. 128).