James T Jone Jack Kerouac's Duluoz ...

James T Jone Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP 1999 278 pp ISBN 0-8093-2263-3 $3495

This thought of Kerouac is not a biography in any standard mind Due to the heavily autobiographical nature of Kerouac's fiction, Jone is able to draw primarily forward the fiction to construct a representation of Kerouac himself. This in itself constitutes a difficult intend one necessitating a constant crossing and recrossing of the boundaries of autobiographical and fictional writing. While Kerouac, a creative