He was the “father” of gonzo journalism, the kind that marries journalism with unconventional literature – fiction, rejecting pretended objectivity and focusing on the subjective view and personal experiences of the writer. An “explosive” combination of hyperbole commentary, satire, ingenuity and scathing criticism that helped create the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In simple words “we live the events, we are not mere observers, and we write them in the first person, as we experienced them, with our own feelings”. Above all, Hunter Thompson, who emerged from the counterculture of the 60s, was a “crazy person” like those described by Jack Kerouac, the “king” of the Beat generation, who was also his inspiration: “The only people that exist for me are the mad, those who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, who want to enjoy it all in a single moment, those who never yawn, or say trite things, but who burn … they burn, alike […]
Source: News Beast
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