Big Sur Allusions

Kerouac's Other Works

• The Subterraneans (author's note)
• The Dharma Bums (author's note, 11.8)
• Doctor Sax (author's note)
• Maggie Cassidy (author's note)
• Tristessa (author's note)
• Desolation Angels (author's note)
• Visions of Cody (author's note)
• "Mexico City Blues" (23.3)

Literature, Philosophy, Other Thinkers

• Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past (author's note, 6.1)
• William Blake (4.2, 21.15)
• Arthur Rimbaud (5.1, 23.2)
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (5.1, 5.3)
• Emily Dickinson (5.4)
• Orson Welles (5.5)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (7.1)
• Walt Whitman (7.1)
• Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (7.1)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (7.1, 30.2)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (7.1)
• James Joyce (7.2, 34.3)
• Gertrude Stein (11.7)
• Ezra Pound (11.7)
• Wallace Stevens (11.7)
• Jane Austen (11.11)
• The Book of Songs, the earliest existing collection of Chinese poems (12.3)
• William Faulkner (12.3)
• César Birotteau (12.3)
• William Shakespeare (12.3)
• William Shakespeare, King Lear (24.1)
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet (mention of Ophelia and quote "Get thee to a nunnery") (34.4, 34.11)
• The Satirycon (12.3)
• Dante Alighieri (12.3)
• Sir Philip Sidney (12.3)
• Lope de Vega (12.3)
• Miguel de Cervantes (12.3, 23.4)
• Catullus (12.3)
• Jean Genet (18.2)
• Denton Welch (19.2)
• Truman Capote (19.2)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (20.14)
• Robert Burns, "To A Mouse" (21.11)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (21.15)
• Theo Marzials (22.5)
• Henry Harland (22.5)
• François Villon (23.3)
• Erskine Caldwell (25.1)
• Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (26.6)
• Henry Miller
• Ernest Hemingway (38.1)
• Sigmund Freud (38.4)

Music, TV, Sports, Pop Culture

• "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen," an Irish Ballad (1.1)
• Steve Allen Show (6.1)
• Ripley's Believe It or Not! (6.4)
• Babe Ruth (10.4)
• Igor Stravinsky (11.11, 25.1)
• Frank Sinatra (12.3, 31.5)
• Beethoven (15.1), " Solemn Mass " (14.1)
• Mae West (14.7)
• Stan Getz (16.1)
• Chet Baker (19.1, 22.2)
• Dame May Whitty (22.6)
• Jean Harlow (23.2)
• Humphrey Bogart (36.8)

Art

• Paul Gaugin (6.3)
• André Eglevsky, a famous ballet dancer (8.1)
• Anthony van Dyck (27.4)

Religion

• St. Christopher (2.1)
• Lankavatara Scripture (5.4, 11.7)
• Babylon (6.4)
• Dajian Huineng (10.1)
• Thomas à Kempis (10.1)
• Bodhidharma (11.11)
• Buddha (12.3, 14.9, 31.7)
• Laurence Sterne (12.3)
• Ibn El Arabi (12.3)
• Jesus Christ (14.3)
• The Kama Sutra (14.9)
• Aleister Crowley (19.2)
• Jetsun Milarepa (22.8, 31.1)
• St. Michael (23.4)

Politics, History, Biography

• Raúl Castro
• James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (17.1)
• Chiang Kai Shek (20.1)
• President Kennedy (21.8)
• William Bonney, a.k.a. "Billy the Kid" (23.2)