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Kindle $8.99. Rate this book. A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the N. American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" & "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge & experience.
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The Subterraneans (1958) On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.
- Jack Kerouac
- 1957
May 26, 2015 · On the Road is a novel often cited as defining a generation, changing lives and influencing many other searchers and writers. The novel catapulted the career of Kerouac who became a Cobain-like figure of the time; the media had less interest in his writing or his books than in his potential as a spokesman for a generation, which he never aspired or claimed to be.
- Jack Kerouac and on The Road
- Early Influences and Inspiration For The Novel
- Spontaneous Prose?
- The First Book
- The Hitchhiker
- The Car
- A Spiritual Quest?
When it was first published in 1957, On the Roadbecame a soul map for the nascent Beat Generation and turned Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac into a cult figure. Jack's book might be nothing more than a set of undisciplined comings and goings, a series of chaotic journeys involving two youths, one oversexed and one over-mothered. But it's a whole lot g...
In the spring of 1947, Neal Cassady left New York City to return to Denver, where he had arrived almost a year previous. During that time, his relationship with Jack Kerouac had deepened; the two 'were like soul mates' despite the fact that Cassady was a known conman and petty thief. He had come to New York with his pretty young wife LuAnn, burning...
Not so spontaneous, as it turns out. Jack had been experimenting with different writing styles for years. In December 1950, he received a long letter from Neal Cassady describing some of his exploits in Denver. Jack was bowled over by the style, a colourful, spontaneous mix of vivid descriptives, conversation, brief asides and references. It was ra...
All this time, Jack had been working on his first serious novel, The Town and the City,which was eventually published in March 1950, to mixed reviews. It had taken him over three years to complete. The criticism may have hurt but as it turned out was a blessing in disguise as it convinced Jack to leave fiction behind and concentrate on actual event...
Any hitchhiker will tell you that once you set out with just a backpack and your thumb you get a certain buzz of adventure tinged with apprehension. You never know quite what's in store for you as you stand there watching the traffic zoom past. Will you make it round the next bend? What sort of car or van will you end up in, how far will you get an...
For long periods in On the Road,the star of the show is a car, owned by Dean Moriarty. That car is a 1949 Hudson (straight six?) and Sal Paradise sees it for the first time one Christmas whilst at his family's house celebrating. Inside is an exhausted but excited Dean who has driven thousands of miles to see his old friend Sal, for no reason other ...
In March 1956, a few months before On the Roadwas published, Jack hitchhiked to visit the poet Gary Snyder, who lived in California. They spent some weeks exploring the wilderness together before Snyder left for a new life in Japan. Jack moved north to take up a job as a fire watcher in the Cascade Mountains, perhaps feeling a need to escape from t...
His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes. Kerouac is recognized for his style of stream of consciousness spontaneous prose.
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Sep 4, 2017 · On the Road details the fast-living years of Kerouac’s life, and was the first novel in the Duluoz Legend published (not counting his debut, The Town and the City, which is a fine novel and a ...
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Nov 25, 2021 · 1. The scroll story often told about On the Road is a little misleading. Literary legend has it that Kerouac wrote On the Road, his second novel, spontaneously over three weeks in April 1951. It ...
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