Kerouac, surely, is. I believe that he, along with his other companions of the so-called "beat generation", are heirs to a great figure (very controversial, by the way) of modern literature (by the way, I plan to address it soon in my series on literary modernity): Arthur Rimbaud.
In these authors work and life are confused, and sometimes the second flap to the first. Their lives were very intense and daring, marked by something of what the French collect in the phrase "enfant terrible", or Verlaine "poèts maudits". Kerouac will be attracting the attention of readers, attracted by adventure and transgression, thank you for your good work both in the text and in the illustrations that accompany it. Greetings.The initiative to make a series on "cult authors" seems to me excellent, @honeydue. There are those of great interest, certainly. For me a "cult author" is a writer or artist in general who, without being someone of great diffusion or acceptance for the general public, becomes, by the peculiar characteristics (unusual, strange, bold, marginal, unconventional ...) of his work and life, a creator followed perhaps by a select group.
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