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Oct 5, 2018 · Cassady with his friend Jack Kerouac, whose On the Road was inspired by the “Joan Anderson Letter.” Courtesy of the Neal Cassady Estate. At the same time, Cassady also was a literary influence who pushed Kerouac toward spontaneous prose.
1. He Inspired Everyone—Except Himself. Neal Cassady was the free-wheeling, frenetic, hedonistic “Holy Fool” that inspired (and slept with) some of the Beat Generation’s most iconic writers.
Nov 3, 2013 · Inspired by Cassady’s companionship, Kerouac hammered out the first draft of his most famous book on a single, long scroll of paper between April 2 – 22, 1951; a novel he’d been working on in one form or another since at least 1948.
Nov 24, 2020 · The result was an explosion of “road” novels, beginning with On the Road, in which Cassady—renamed Dean Moriarity— is referred to as “the root, the soul” of Beat. Here’s the way Beat scholar and poet A. Robert Lee puts it in his bracing, comprehensive introduction to the first publication of the letter as a complete book in itself:
Inspired by a 10,000-word rambling letter from his friend, Neal Cassady, Kerouac, in 1950, outlined the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady, as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz. [5]
In the film Across the Universe (2007), the character Dr. Robert, played by Bono, is said to have been inspired by Neal Cassady. [28]
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Feb 1, 2010 · One of those Americans was an intelligent literary legend and general roustabout named Neal Cassady, the man who inspired the character of Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s landmark novel, On the Road.
