![]() In an age where youth culture is increasingly defined by consumerism, where the road trip has been replaced by the gap year, and where it is considered radical to be cool but not cool to be radical. SUMMARY: The free-form book describes a series of frenetic trips across the United States by a number of penniless young people who are in love with life, beauty, jazz, sex, drugs, speed, and mysticism and who have absolute contempt for. ![]() For many young people in America, though, the name Jack Kerouac means nothing at all. On the Road, novel by Jack Kerouac, written over the course of three weeks in 1951 and published in 1957. Tom Waits, too, acknowledged its influence, hymning Jack and Neal in a song, and calling the Beats ‘father figures’. On the road as part of the broader intellectual project of Kerouac and other beat writ. ‘It changed my life like it changed everyone else’s,’ Bob Dylan would say many years later. reference to Jack Kerouac, On the road and the beat generation. ![]() On the Road is a novel about adventure, life experience, music and freedom. Sixty years ago Jack Kerouac wrote a dazzling novel that became the blueprint for the Beat generation and shaped cultures for decades. One of these books I would like to share with you is On the Road by Jack Kerouac. You often stumble upon books that changed your life. ![]() “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac ![]()
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