nairi Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 Excerpt from an interview with Jack Kerouac by Ted Berrigan in The Paris Review Interviews (1968): "As for Saroyan, yes I loved him as a teenager, he really got me out of the nineteenth-century rut I was trying to study, not only with his funny tone but also with his neat Armenian poetic - I don't know what... He just got me..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakachik77 Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 I read something similar on Jackson Polluck expressing about Arshile Gorky, it kind of went like this "there are 3 people I've ever admired and one is Gorky, the Armenian...(sorry don't remember, but it left an impression on me). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvestaked Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 Jack Kerouac, in "On the Road," was accounting walking through Fresno when he saw an Armenian and at that moment, allegedly thought to himself, "Ah, Saroyan's town." Arshile Gorky was very important in the Abstract Expressionism movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted January 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Jack Kerouac, in "On the Road," was accounting walking through Fresno when he saw an Armenian and at that moment, allegedly thought to himself, "Ah, Saroyan's town."style_images/master/snapback.png "I stuck my head out of the window and took deep breaths of the fragrant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments. The madman was a brakeman with the Southern Pacific and he lived in Fresno; his father was also a brakeman. He lost his toe in the Oakland yards, switching, I didn't quite understand how. He drove me into buzzing Fresno and let me off by the south side of town. I went for a quick Coke in a little grocery by the tracks, and here came a melancholy Armenian youth along the red boxcars, and just at that moment locomotive howled, and I said to myself, Yes, yes, Saroyan town." http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kerouac.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvestaked Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 There you have it! What a wonderful book that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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