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On The Road (French: Sur la route) is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. It is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac 's 1957 novel On the Road and stars an ensemble cast featuring Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Alice Braga, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst, and Viggo Mortensen.
The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s, in a series of notebooks and then typed out, on a continuous reel of paper, during three weeks in April 1951. It was published by Viking Press in 1957.
- Jack Kerouac
- 1957
It opens with an article titled “On the Road: The Night of September 27,” in which a young Kerouac-like character takes off on a journey across America from his hometown of Lowell,...
- 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...
Jack Kerouac's On the Road, published in 1957, was viewed as nothing less than a manifesto for the Beat Generation. On the Road is the story of two young men, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, who travel frantically back and forth across the American continent seeking thrills. The novel is actually a thinly veiled account of Kerouac's own life in ...
Aug 16, 2024 · On the Road, novel by Jack Kerouac, written over the course of three weeks in 1951 and published in 1957.
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Jack Kerouac 's On the Road is the defining work of the Beat Generation, a youth subculture of the 1940s and '50s that rejected the conformism of its time.
