/lit/ - Literature

>>7806850
Nah, the Dylan you know, maybe. He was certainly an asshole during his cocaine and fame phase in the mid sixties but beforehand he had been a super self conscious wannabe folk singer and afterwards he did everything he could to unwrite his own mythology and in a refusal to take the easy path of pandering experimented (still is experimenting) with a whole slew of different styles and projects. He even went back on his folk days and admitted he played protest songs because they were what people wanted to hear.
On the other hand, you have Kerouac, a bad writer with one style who wrote an accidentally good book and spent the rest of his short miserable life living in its shadow and publishing 'beat' fiction he'd written years earlier despite pretty much hating the movement.