Summary
Jim Morrison: Wilderness
lost writings
Morrison "summarized" his literary and philosophical beliefs in sentences that are probably his most frequent, but also his most vivid quotes: "I have always been attracted to ideas related to rebellion against authority. I like the ideas of disobeying and rejecting the accepted system. I am interested in everything about rebellion, disorder, chaos - especially activities that seem to have no no sense."
"On paper I only indicate the skeleton, and I create the body and musculature during the performance on stage." Morrison's texts should therefore not be understood as "classical" poetry that is printed in books, but as templates or, to be more precise, scenarios for a rock show.
Morrison's literary and philosophical role models (a somewhat eccentric mixture of "damned poets" of American modernity and the European past: Kerouac and beat poets, as well as Balzac, Rimbaud, Moliere, Joyce, Camus and Baudelaire) - with respect to the status of the leader of one of the most popular groups in the entire history rock - are the best key to understanding Morrison's versification.
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