Abstract
Features of Buddhist philosophy as interpreted by the countercultural writer J. Kerouac play an important role in the artistic self-determination of the British poet and musician D. Bowie and the formation of his creative personality. The article suggests that Kerouac’s motif of the road has Buddhist philosophical overtones, which Bowie adopts to create the poetic “persona” of Aladdin Sane, functioning in a unique way in the album cycle of the same name. Aladdin’s “persona” is presented as schizophrenic, but at the same time embodying the concepts of “transience” and “absence of self”, close to Buddhist philosophy in Kerouac’s interpretation.
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