Title: ROSALITA
First published: 1968
Description: Rosalita is a Post Ulysses Joycian Stream - Of - Consciousness Novella, expressed in words to Jack Smith of the Los Angeles Times, as an expression of a generation that has rebelled against its elders. It was written at the time of the Viet Nam War. Day told Jack Smith: "Americans are materialistic and aggressive because they had to be, to pioneer their country. When you had to drive a wagon across 1000 miles you couldn't be passive. But today your children are responsive to a more passive philosophy. The West is an external society; the East is internal, more spiritual. The East lives on the inside, the West on the outside..........I don't mean you have to have a God in Heaven, but you have to have a God inside you".It is a search of Youth searching for Itself.
LC classification: PZ4.D2745 Ro