On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.
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Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream.
With an Introduction by Ann Charters
'A paean to what Kerouac described as "the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being"' SUNDAY TIMES
On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero. Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than F.Scott Fitzgerald's, and the narrative goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.
Das literarische Manifest einer Jugend, die inmitten der "schlechtesten der Welten" ein dröhnendes Bekenntnis zum "glückseligen Leben" ablegt, läßt den ehrbaren Bürger erschauern. Tempo, Jazz, Marihuana, Sex und Freiheit sind die Zauberwörter der beat generation, die ständig auf der Suche nach einem intensiven, rauscherfüllten Dasein ist. Ihre Trampfahrten durch die ungeheuren Weiten des Landes lassen sie ein Amerika entdecken, das die Landkarten bürgerlicher Erfolgsmoral nicht verzeichnen. In der spontanen, scheinbar improvisierten Prosa Kerouacs äußert sich das Lebensgefühl einer sehr modernen Romantik mit ihren eigenen Freundschaftsidealen und Solidaritätsvorstellungen.
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