”Desolation Angels”, by Jack Kerouac

”Desolation Angels”
by Jack Kerouac Not K's best book - it's hard to match On the road - but still pretty interesting. They say it is the one of his novels that is closest to his original diary notes from his travels.
  K started writing Desolation Angels in 1956, before On the Road was published. Here we meet a much more pessimistic Kerouac, or Dulouz as his alter ego is called in the book.
  Actually, the first part of the book differs a lot from the rest, and K had actually planned it as two different books. As we start out, we meet Dulouz alone on the mountain ”Desolation Peak” where he is working as a guard over the summer. His thoughts in this solitude make up the first part of the book. To the beat fan it is a good guide to the role of religion for the beat generation, or at least for K himself. He fights with his buddhist beliefs, angry at not being able to let go of the world when he knows it is just an illusion, that the Void is all there is, and the Void doesn't care.
  But summer ends, and we follow Dulouz down from the mountain, into the wild streets of San Fransisco, then on to Mexico, Tangiers, Paris, London... on and on, always looking for something new. And in this quest he meets a lot of people, but he moves on, for ever in desolation.

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