'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob Dylan Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic 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. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.
Jack Kerouac (1922 ¿ 1969) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. Most of his life was spent in the vast landscapes of America or living with his mother, with whom he spent most of his life. Kerouac's best known works are On the Road and The Dharma Bums. Ann Charters, professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has been interested in Beat writers since 1956, when as an undergraduate English major she attended the repeat performance of the Six Gallery poetry reading in Berkeley where Allen Ginsberg gave his sencond public reading of Howl. After his death she wrote the first Kerouac biography and edited his posthumous collection, Scattered Poems. She was the general editor of the two-volume encyclopaedia The Beats: Literary Bohemians In Postwar America and has published a collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats & Company.
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THE BEAT GOES ON. Sie sind immer unterwegs, auf Trips quer durch den amerikanischen Kontinent. Sie berauschen sich an der Natur, an Drogen, am Jazz, am Sex. Atemlos erzählt Jack Kerouac in seinem autobiographischen Roman von der Suche nach dem Glück, nach Freiheit, nach der grossen Liebe, nach der ultimativen Party. «On the Road» hat weltweit ganze Generationen inspiriert. Kerouac tippte das Manuskript in drei schlaflosen Wochen auf eine vierzig Meter lange Papierrolle. Es erschien stark überarbeitet, eingekürzt und anonymisiert. Nun liegt die Urfassung des legendären Beat-Romans endlich vollständig und neu übersetzt auf Deutsch vor. «Erst in der ursprünglichen Fassung entfaltet der Roman seinen ganzen unwiderstehlichen Sog und zeigt den neuartigen Prosa-Sound, um den Kerouac sich bemüht hatte.» NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG
As anyone who has read Jack Kerouac knows, his novels are filled with real people and real events that have been reflected through the prism of his imagination. Over sixteen books Kerouac told a fictional autobiography through his alter ego Jack Dulouz--from childhood memories of his older brother's death (Visions of Gerard), to being a washed-up drunk on the verge of a nervous breakdown (Big Sur), he used his life as the source of his writing...
During my recovery from a recent surgery, I started reading Jack Kerouac again. I say “again,” because Kerouac was my favorite writer during my first years of college. For many people …
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.' Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic 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. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel defined the new 'Beat' generation and became the bible of the counter culture. 'On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. The alienation, the restlessness, the dissatisfaction were already there waiting when Kerouac pointed out the road' William Burroughs 'Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience' Hanif Kureishi, Independent on Sunday 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.
Jack Kerouac's Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics edition 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.
On The Road, de Jack Kerouac, corajoso e totalmente entregue à literatura, deixou sua marca rebelde na literatura do século XX.
n Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell (MA) Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, and in spite of his fancy name, his French-Canadian parents had to emigrate to Massachusetts to find work. […]
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Four of Kerouac's essential works in a new collectible series, perfect for taking on the road A striking reimagining of Jack Kerouac's greatest works, this Penguin Modern Classics collection sees On The Road, Big Sur, The Dharma Bums and Lonesome Traveler in eye-catching new covers. Designer Tom Etherington took inspiration from New York School abstract expressionist Franz Kline, pairing bold primary colours with broad paint strokes to create four original covers, which emulate the energetic experience of reading the cult author. --- Featuring four paperbacks by Jack Kerouac: On the Road 'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob DylanSal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic 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. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement. Big Sur Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to 'get away to solitude again or die'. Amidst the wild beauty of the Californian landscape, Kerouac struggles to come to terms with his own myth and its malign impact upon his life. The result is a moving account of a man struggling with inner demons: blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction - a path lined with double bourbons, Manhattans and scotch ... The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature. A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas. Lonesome Traveler A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discoveryAs he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.
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Save time with this no-prep, printable webquest featuring worksheets that engage students in learning about the remarkable life and works JACK KEROUAC, author of ON THE ROAD. This 9-page printable webquest includes 50 questions to help students discover more about JACK KEROUAC. Depending on your class time and your individual students, you might assign students to find all the answers, or divide the questions and let students teach each other as they discover the answers. You might also . . . direct students to the Kerouac quotations at the end of the resource and ask them to use critical thinking to determine how they would fill in the missing words; then compare and contrast what they composed to what Kerouac wrote. ask students to choose one of the Kerouac quotations and then explain orally or in written form why they agree or disagree with it. 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On the Road - Jack Kerouac - Vintage Paperback Book - Signet Edition Nicely aged vintage copy. Yellowed pages.
This falls under the category, “If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself.' In 1950, when Jack Kerouac released his first novel, The Town and the City, he was less than impressed by the book cover produced by his publisher, Harcourt Brace.
Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in three very short weeks in 1951. But then it took six years for the book, famously written on a long scroll, to reach the reading public in 1957. Shortly after its publication, critics were at least quick to recognize what the book meant.