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Book Review: The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation by Tanguy Harma

Year 2023, Volume: 17 Issue: 1, 145 - 148, 30.06.2023
https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1317166

Abstract

Tanguy Harma’s monograph entitled The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation, with its fascinating cover illustration by Vasil Stanev, “2 Sugar Skulls,” presents an in-depth study of the Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg as inheritors of the European Existentialist and the American Transcendentalist tradition. It elaborates these two writers’ struggle to achieve meaningful life in post-war America under hegemonic capitalism and consumerism, crushed beneath conformity and social control, as they struggle towards a more authentic self-expression and liberation beyond the restraints that curtail transcendence.

Book Review: The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation by Tanguy Harma

Year 2023, Volume: 17 Issue: 1, 145 - 148, 30.06.2023
https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1317166

Abstract

Tanguy Harma’s monograph entitled The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation, with its fascinating cover illustration by Vasil Stanev, “2 Sugar Skulls,” presents an in-depth study of the Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg as inheritors of the European Existentialist and the American Transcendentalist tradition. It elaborates these two writers’ struggle to achieve meaningful life in post-war America under hegemonic capitalism and consumerism, crushed beneath conformity and social control, as they struggle towards a more authentic self-expression and liberation beyond the restraints that curtail transcendence.

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Primary Language English
Subjects Literary Studies (Other)
Journal Section Book Reviews
Authors

Gillian Alban

Early Pub Date June 29, 2023
Publication Date June 30, 2023
Published in Issue Year 2023 Volume: 17 Issue: 1

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APA Alban, G. (2023). Book Review: The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: From Self-Destruction to Self-Liberation by Tanguy Harma. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 17(1), 145-148. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1317166

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