On the Road

"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 recognised as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.

Zusatztext 'On the Road' swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America! jazz!sex! generosity! chill dawns and drugs! with Sal Paradise and his heroDean Moriarty! traveller and mystic! the living epitome of Beat. Now recognizedas a modern classic! its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitmanthan F. Scott Fitzgerald's! and the narrative goes racing towards the sunsetwith unforgettable exuberance! poignancy and autobiographical passion. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 . Zusammenfassung 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....

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Leseprobe
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.