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1385:(1972). Kerouac's own explanation of his style in "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" (1953) is that his writing is like the Impressionist painters who sought to create art through direct observation. Matt Theado feels he endeavored to present a raw version of truth which did not lend itself to the traditional process of revision and rewriting but rather the emotionally charged practice of the spontaneity he pursued. Theado argues that the personal nature of the text helps foster a direct link between Kerouac and the reader; that his casual diction and very relaxed syntax was an intentional attempt to depict events as they happened and to convey all of the energy and emotion of the experiences.
533:. He is depressed and lonesome; none of his friends are around. After receiving some money, he leaves Denver for San Francisco to see Dean. Camille is pregnant and unhappy, and Dean has injured his thumb trying to hit Marylou for sleeping with other men. Camille throws them out, and Sal invites Dean to come to New York, planning to travel further to Italy. They meet Galatea, who tells Dean off: "You have absolutely no regard for anybody but yourself and your kicks." Sal realizes she is right—Dean is the "HOLY GOOF"—but also defends him, as "he's got the secret that we're all busting to find out". After a night of jazz and drinking in Little Harlem on
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513:, they stay with the morphine-addicted Old Bull Lee and his wife, Jane. Galatea Dunkel joins her husband in New Orleans while Sal, Dean, and Marylou continue their trip. Once in San Francisco, Dean again leaves Marylou to be with Camille. "Dean will leave you out in the cold anytime it is in the interest of him," Marylou tells Sal. Both of them stay briefly in a hotel, but soon she moves out, following a nightclub owner. Sal is alone and on
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537:, they depart. On the way to Sacramento they meet a "fag", who propositions them. Dean tries to hustle some money out of this but is turned down. During this part of the trip Sal and Dean have ecstatic discussions having found "IT" and "TIME". In Denver a brief argument shows the growing rift between the two, when Dean reminds Sal of his age, Sal being the older of the two. They get a 1947
375:(August 16, 2007), corresponding with the 50th anniversary of original publication. This version has been transcribed and edited by English academic and novelist Howard Cunnell. As well as containing material that was excised from the original draft, due to its explicit nature, the scroll version also uses the real names of the protagonists, so Dean Moriarty becomes
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1895:. "How to live seems much more crucial than why." In many ways, it is a spiritual journey, a quest to find belief, belonging, and meaning in life. Not content with the uniformity promoted by government and consumer culture, the Beats yearned for a deeper, more sensational experience. Holmes expands his attempt to define the generation in a 1958 article in
458:. Disheartened after a divorce, his life changes when he meets Dean Moriarty, who is "tremendously excited with life", and begins to long for the freedom of the road: "Somewhere along the line I knew there would be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me". In July 1947, he sets off from his aunt's house in
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youthful parts of the text that gave it its energy are the parts that have "run afoul of the new gentility, the rules laid down by the health experts, childcare experts, guidance counselors, safety advisers, admissions officers, virtuecrats and employers to regulate the lives of the young." He claims that the "ethos" of the book has been lost.
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Dean, having obtained divorce papers in Mexico, had first returned to New York to marry Inez, only to leave her and go back to
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Paradise, and his friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his carefree attitude and sense of adventure, a free-spirited maverick eager to explore all kicks and an inspiration and catalyst for Sal's travels. The novel contains five parts, three
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is readily available, and people are curious and friendly. The landscape is magnificent. In
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said "We're no longer shocked by the sex and drugs. The slang is passé and at times corny. Some of the racial sentimentality is appalling" but added "the tale of passionate friendship and the search for revelation are timeless. These are as elusive and precious in our time as in Sal's, and will be
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said, "Mr. Kerouac may one day be a good writer, but that day will come when he stops riding around in a compulsive search for "material" and settles down to learn some of the first things about the craft...Mr. Kerouac calls this "The Beat
Generation," but a much more accurate description would be
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influenced an entire generation of musicians, poets, and writers including Allen
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compiled several opinions and summarized them in an Op-Ed from October 2, 2007. Whereas Millstein saw it as a story in which the heroes took pleasure in everything, George Mouratidis, an editor of a new edition, claimed "above all else, the story is about loss". "It's a book about death and the
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is going through at that moment. So a book formerly known for its youthful exuberance now becomes a gloomy middle-aged disillusion." He lamented that the book's spirit seems to have been tamed by the professionalism of America today and how it has only survived in parts. The more reckless and
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Gilbert Millstein wrote, "...its publication is a historic occasion in so far as the exposure of an authentic work of art is of any great moment in an age in which the attention is fragmented and the sensibilities are blunted by the superlatives of fashion" and praised it as "a major novel."
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1231:, "as if he couldn't figure out why he wasn't happier than he was." Finally, they returned to her apartment to go to sleep. As Joyce recalled: "Jack lay down obscure for the last time in his life. The ringing phone woke him the next morning, and he was famous."
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search for something meaningful to hold on to—the famous search for 'IT,' a truth larger than the self, which, of course, is never found," wrote Meghan O'Rourke in Slate. "Kerouac was this deep, lonely, melancholy man," Hilary Holladay of the
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patriarchy to female keeping, they attempt to substitute male brotherhood for the nuclear family and to replace the ladder of success with the freedom of the road as primary measures of male identity."
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1856:, which explores the mystique of the road with an ample section on Kerouac, premiered at the American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs and then screened at two dozen more film festivals.
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249:, 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
1805:(2004), Coppola appointed Salles to direct the movie. In preparation for the film, Salles traveled the United States, tracing Kerouac's journey and filming a documentary on the search for
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published a review that contradicted most of what Millstein had promoted in the book. "As a portrait of a disjointed segment of society acting out of its own neurotic necessity,
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What's Your Road, Man? Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac's On the Road
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when our grandchildren celebrate the book's hundredth anniversary."
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Kerouac often based his fictional characters on friends and family.
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is a book of broken dreams and failed plans," wrote Ted Gioia in
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Kerouac's writing style has attracted the attention of critics.
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2479:. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press: 169–185.
2464:. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press: 169–185.
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Brinkley, Douglas (November 1998). "In the Kerouac Archive".
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as Moriarty; in 1995, he planned to shoot on black-and-white
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has been the object of critical study since its publication.
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records and going to clubs to hear their musical favorites.
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of the characters as well as the nature of Kerouac's prose.
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A backlash began a few days later in the same publication.
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2958:. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2009.
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In the spring of 1949, Sal takes a bus from New York to
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In 2007, Gabriel Anctil, a journalist of Montreal daily
2244:"Beatdom - Who's Who: A Guide to Kerouac's Characters"
1680:) wrote, "I suppose if Jack Kerouac had never written
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Ornithology period and another period that began with
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in attendance, but all those projects fell through.
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not laid down the template; likewise, films such as
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100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
2497:. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
1381:(1951) and the "wild form" of his later books like
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2112:Latham, A. (January 28, 1973). "Visions of Cody".
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3007:Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac
2077:Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac
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1470:– "I Like My Baby's Pudding" (Pt. 4, Ch. 4); and
1462:– "Gator Tail" (Pt. 4, Ch. 1 – recorded with the
1442:– "Lover Man" (Pt.1, Ch. 13; also Pt. 3, Ch. 4);
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2886:. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. p. 3.
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1294:" who "aren't really mad—they only seem to be."
454:The first section describes Sal's first trip to
3457:Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation
2798:"Kristen Stewart to star in Jack Kerouac story"
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1707:as a major inspiration for the fantasy series.
1454:– "Congo Blues" (Pt. 3, Ch. 7 – recorded under
2939:Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
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2127:Cowley, Malcolm; Young, Thomas Daniel (1986).
1829:in 2012 and was nominated for the Palme d'Or.
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1937:List of most expensive books and manuscripts
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2884:Beatniks: a guide to an American subculture
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2231:Jack Kerouac: An Illustrated Biography.
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2735:"Hollywood comes to Gatineau to film
1670:Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors
3344:The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
2976:Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of
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2186:Anctil, Gabriel (5 September 2007).
2941:, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press,
2704:James Mottram (12 September 2008).
2233:Chicago: Chicago Review Press. 1999
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2902:The New York Times Sunday Magazine
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2289:David Dempsey (8 September 1957).
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1328:University of Massachusetts Lowell
945:Helen Tomson (Bill Tomson's wife)
843:William Holmes "Big Slim" Hubbard
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2660:Kerouac: The Definitive Biography
2406:Brooks, David (October 2, 2007).
2131:Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1697:, creator of long-running series
1608:, in a 2007 article published in
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846:William Holmes "Big Slim" Hazard
488:, and then hitchhikes his way to
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2733:Karen Soloman (17 August 2010).
2706:"The long and grinding story of
2508:O'Hagan, Sean (August 5, 2007).
1221:, near Joyce's apartment in the
373:On the Road: The Original Scroll
151:Print (hardback & paperback)
3812:Novels set in the United States
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2676:Stephen Galloway (9 May 2012).
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400:, written on January 19, 1951.
3479:Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road
3441:Poetry for the Beat Generation
2865:"American Road: A documentary"
2636:Scott Martelle (4 June 2005).
2579:Rpt. in Lee, Michelle (2009).
2150:Bignell, Paul (29 July 2007).
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1919:(1990 book by Carolyn Cassady)
1874:New York Times Sunday Magazine
1639:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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2842:Release dates for On the Road
2090:Sante, Luc (19 August 2007).
2011:. New York: Penguin Classics.
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333:The scroll, exhibited at the
288:After Kerouac dropped out of
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2937:& Lee, Lawrence (2005),
2357:"Books: The Ganser Syndrome"
2060:. New York: Viking. p.
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3802:Novels set in San Francisco
3797:Novels set in New York City
3471:Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness
3464:The Jack Kerouac Collection
3099:The Illustrated On the Road
3041:Hrebeniak, Michael (2006),
2761:Kemp, Stuart (6 May 2010).
2194:(in French). Quebec, Canada
2009:Introduction to On the Road
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3025:Understanding Jack Kerouac
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2495:Understanding Jack Kerouac
2099:New York Times Book Review
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2164:. London. Archived from
2075:Nicosia, Gerald (1994).
722:William S. Burroughs Jr.
631:Metropolitan Opera House
270:55th on its list of the
3807:Novels set in the 1940s
3580:Moody Street Irregulars
3089:Interactive Google Maps
2853:Awards for On the Road
2664:Taylor Trade Publishing
2586:(subscription required)
2291:"In Pursuit of 'Kicks'"
1776:as Dean Moriarty; then
1737:, which did not occur.
1717:On the Road (2012 film)
1545:Torin (Pt. 3, Ch. 11).
471:at a boarding camp for
415:
403:The original scroll of
379:and Carlo Marx becomes
81:stream of consciousness
3787:Novels by Jack Kerouac
3647:Jan Kerouac (daughter)
3101:by Christopher Panzner
2772:The Hollywood Reporter
2763:"Kristen Stewart goes
2687:The Hollywood Reporter
2477:What's Your Road, Man?
2462:What's Your Road, Man?
2213:"Exhibitions: Kerouac"
2037:Charters, Ann (1973).
1992:. 2005. Archived from
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1363:Baby Boomer generation
1158:"The famous director"
1080:Dorie, "Tall redhead"
767:Neal Cassady's cousin
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3736:Kerouac, Then and Now
3181:The Town and the City
3161:The Sea Is My Brother
3091:of the Four Trips in
3023:Theado, Matt (2000),
2882:Alan Bisbort (2010).
2819:"Dunst joins Stewart
2557:10.1353/lit.2005.0028
2432:Leland, John (2007).
2363:. September 16, 1957.
2168:on September 27, 2007
2007:Ann Charters (2003).
1772:as Sal Paradise, and
1760:, before settling on
1721:A film adaptation of
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1379:The Town and the City
1261:The Los Angeles Times
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183:The Town and the City
3792:Novels set in Denver
3782:Novels about writers
3767:1957 American novels
3672:William S. Burroughs
3537:Love Always, Carolyn
3174:William S. Burroughs
2493:Matt Theado (2000).
2408:"Sal Paradise at 50"
2052:John Leland (2007).
2039:Kerouac: A Biography
1996:on October 19, 2005.
1963:"Books of the Times"
1924:Love Always, Carolyn
1827:Cannes Film Festival
1742:Francis Ford Coppola
1676:(keyboard player of
1533:(Pt. 4, Ch. 4); and
985:Jinny Baker Lehrman
701:William S. Burroughs
677:Sal Paradise's Aunt
570:road again, passing
232:William S. Burroughs
19:For other uses, see
3822:Roman Ă clef novels
3725:Jack Kerouac School
2638:"On the road again"
1343:The Weekly Standard
911:'s brother-in-law)
824:John Clellon Holmes
670:Gabrielle Kerouac (
290:Columbia University
105:, elsewhere in the
49:First edition cover
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3832:Viking Press books
3730:Jack Kerouac Alley
3561:Kill Your Darlings
3360:Old Angel Midnight
2545:College Literature
2412:The New York Times
2325:(4 October 1957).
2296:The New York Times
2114:The New York Times
1971:The New York Times
1892:The Sun Also Rises
1768:as director, with
1735:Paramount Pictures
1595:Hunter S. Thompson
1322:The New York Times
1191:The New York Times
1188:In his review for
1134:Haldon "Hal" Chase
1011:Jose GarcĂa Villa
998:Victor Villanueva
762:Old Dean Moriarty
759:Neal Cassady, Sr.
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3817:Postmodern novels
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3414:Atop an Underwood
3336:Mexico City Blues
3277:Desolation Angels
3269:Visions of Gerard
3253:Lonesome Traveler
3197:The Subterraneans
3172:(1945/2008; with
3052:978-0-8093-8789-2
3034:978-1-57003-846-4
2995:978-0-670-06325-3
2613:Los Angeles Times
2387:978-1-101-59461-2
2332:Los Angeles Times
2327:"The Book Report"
2229:Sandison, David.
2219:. 11 August 2023.
2094:On The Road Again
2026:. pp. 49–76.
1821:played Mary Lou.
1703:, has also cited
1661:Thelma and Louise
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1014:Angel Luz GarcĂa
862:Mary Bettencourt
854:Rita Bettencourt
793:Cathleen Cassady
652:Real-life person
306:William Burroughs
292:, he served as a
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140:Publication place
134:September 5, 1957
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3376:Book of Sketches
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1780:as Paradise and
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1485:and his drummer
1268:The review from
1248:Atlantic Monthly
1228:Minor Characters
1184:Initial reaction
1117:Alan Harrington
1060:LuAnne Henderson
994:Victorino Tejera
948:Dorothy Johnson
875:Beverly Burford
788:Joanie Moriarty
731:Julie Burroughs
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1519:Thelonious Monk
1499:Louis Armstrong
1483:George Shearing
1464:Cootie Williams
1452:Dizzy Gillespie
1421:George Shearing
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