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On the Road. 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.
DETAIL: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has become a classic text in American literary counterculture. Set in the aftermath of the Second World War, Sal Paradise’s account of his travels across America has become emblematic of the struggle to retain the freedom of the American dream in a more sober historical moment.
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The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition ;Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience.
- Jack Kerouac
On the Road gave voice to a rising, dissatisfied fringe of the young generation of the late forties and early fifties. It was after the Great Depression and World War II and more than a decade before the Civil Rights movement and the turmoil of the '60s.
On the Road is a thrill ride of a novel based on Kerouac’s own experiences traveling across the United States in the late 1940s and interacting with other literary figures in the Beat movement. Its style and the stream-of-consciousness manner in which the original draft was written reflect his wild and unconventional attempts to achieve an ...
The novel’s unique literary devices, such as spontaneous prose, vivid imagery, and a semi-autobiographical narrative, contribute to its enduring appeal. Embodying the search for freedom and self-discovery, “On the Road” remains an iconic testament to the allure of the open road.
On The Road. Based on the iconic Jack Kerouac novel, a young writer's life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of a free-spirited, fearless, fast-talking Westerner and his girl. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Walter Salles.
Determined not to get trapped in a narrow life, the two friends burn their bridges and hit the road: thirsting for freedom, they discover the world, others and themselves. On The Road, the long...
