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1957 novel by Jack Kerouac

On the Road

Writer	Jack Kerouac
State	United States
Language	English
Genre	Shell, stream of consciousness
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	September v, 1957
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	320 pages
OCLC	43419454
Preceded by	The Town and the Urban center (1950)
Followed by	The Subterraneans (1958)

On the Road is a 1957 novel past 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 properties of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement, such equally William Due south. Burroughs (Erstwhile Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx), and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the volume, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise.

The idea for On the Road, Kerouac'due south second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was published past Viking Press in 1957.

The New York Times hailed the book'due south appearance every bit "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the almost of import utterance however made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'shell,' and whose main avatar he is."^[1] In 1998, the Modernistic Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English language-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was called by Fourth dimension magazine every bit i of the 100 best English-linguistic communication novels from 1923 to 2005.^[2]

Production and publication [edit]

After Kerouac dropped out of Columbia Academy, he served on several different sailing vessels earlier returning to New York to write. He met and mixed with Beat Generation figures Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Between 1947 and 1950, while writing what would become The Town and the Urban center (1950), Kerouac engaged in the road adventures that would class On the Road.^[3] Kerouac carried small notebooks, in which much of the text was written equally the eventful span of road trips unfurled. He started working on the offset of several versions of the novel as early equally 1948, based on experiences during his first long road trip in 1947. However, he remained dissatisfied with the novel.^[4] Inspired past a 10,000-word rambling letter from his friend Neal Cassady, Kerouac in 1950 outlined the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady every bit if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz.^[5] In a letter of the alphabet to a student in 1961, Kerouac wrote: "Dean and I were embarked on a journeying through mail-Whitman America to FIND that America and to Notice the inherent goodness in American human. It was really a story about two Catholic buddies roaming the land in search of God. And nosotros institute him."^[6]

The first draft of what was to become the published novel was written in three weeks in April 1951, while Kerouac lived with Joan Haverty, his 2nd married woman, at 454 Due west 20th Street in New York City's Manhattan. The manuscript was typed on what he chosen "the scroll"—a continuous, 120-pes gyre of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together.^[7] The ringlet was typed single-spaced, without margins or paragraph breaks. In the following years, Kerouac continued to revise this manuscript, deleting some sections (including some sexual depictions deemed pornographic in the 1950s) and adding smaller literary passages.^[eight] Kerouac wrote a number of inserts intended for On the Road between 1951 and 1952, before eventually omitting them from the manuscript and using them to grade the basis of some other work, Visions of Cody (1951–1952).^[9] On the Road was championed within Viking Press by Malcolm Cowley and was published past Viking in 1957, based on revisions of the 1951 manuscript.^[10] Too differences in formatting, the published novel was shorter than the original scroll manuscript and used pseudonyms for all of the major characters.

Viking Printing released a slightly edited version of the original manuscript titled On the Road: The Original Scroll (August 16, 2007), corresponding with the 50th ceremony of original publication. This version has been transcribed and edited by English academic and novelist Dr. Howard Cunnell. Also as containing textile that was excised from the original draft due to its explicit nature, the coil version also uses the real names of the protagonists, so Dean Moriarty becomes Neal Cassady and Carlo Marx becomes Allen Ginsberg, etc.^[xi]

In 2007, Gabriel Anctil, a journalist of Montreal daily Le Devoir, discovered in Kerouac'due south personal archives in New York almost 200 pages of his writings entirely in Quebec French, with colloquialisms. The collection included 10 manuscript pages of an unfinished version of On the Road, written on January 19, 1951.^[12]

The original scroll of On the Route was bought in 2001 by Jim Irsay for $two.43 million (equivalent to $three.72 meg in 2021). It has occasionally been made bachelor for public viewing, with the first xxx anxiety (9 m) unrolled. Between 2004 and 2012, the ringlet was displayed in several museums and libraries in the Usa, Ireland, and the United kingdom. Information technology was exhibited in Paris in the summer of 2012 to celebrate the movie based on the book.^[13]

Plot [edit]

The two principal characters of the book are the narrator, Sal Paradise, and his friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his carefree attitude and sense of adventure, a free-spirited bohemian eager to explore all kicks and an inspiration and goad for Sal's travels. The novel contains five parts, iii of them describing road trips with Moriarty. The narrative takes place in the years 1947 to 1950, is full of Americana, and marks a specific era in jazz history, "somewhere betwixt its Charlie Parker Ornithology period and another menses that began with Miles Davis." The novel is largely autobiographical, Sal beingness the alter ego of the author and Dean standing for Neal Cassady.

Part 1 [edit]

The kickoff section describes Sal'due south first trip to San Francisco. Disheartened after a divorce, his life changes when he meets Dean Moriarty, who is "tremendously excited with life," and begins to long for the liberty of the road: "Somewhere along the line I knew there would be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would exist handed to me." In July 1948, he sets off from his aunt'due south house in Paterson with l dollars (equivalent to about US$500 in 2021^[14]) in his pocket. Later taking several buses and hitchhiking, he arrives in Denver, where he hooks up with Carlo Marx, Dean, and their friends. There are parties—amongst them an excursion to the ghost boondocks of Central Metropolis. Eventually Sal leaves by bus and gets to San Francisco, where he meets Remi Boncoeur and his girlfriend Lee Ann. Remi arranges for Sal to accept a task as a night watchman at a boarding camp for merchant sailors waiting for their ship. Not property this job for long, Sal hits the road again. "Oh, where is the girl I love?" he wonders. Soon he meets Terry, the "cutest footling Mexican girl," on the bus to Los Angeles. They stay together, traveling back to Bakersfield, and then to Sabinal, "her hometown," where her family unit works in the fields. He meets Terry's brother Ricky, who teaches him the true significant of "mañana" ("tomorrow"). Working in the cotton wool fields, Sal realizes that he is not fabricated for this type of piece of work. Leaving Terry behind, he takes a bus back east to Pittsburgh, and and then hitchhikes his style to Times Square in New York City. Once at that place he bums a quarter off a preacher who looks the other way, and arrives at his aunt's house, just missing Dean, who had come to meet him, past two days.

Office Two [edit]

In December 1948 Sal is celebrating Christmas with his relatives in Testament, Virginia, when Dean shows upward with Marylou (having left his second wife, Camille, and their newborn baby, Amy, in San Francisco) and Ed Dunkel. Sal's Christmas plans are shattered as "now the bug was on me again, and the bug'southward proper noun was Dean Moriarty." Kickoff they bulldoze to New York, where they meet Carlo and party. Dean wants Sal to make beloved to Marylou, but Sal declines. In Dean's Hudson they take off from New York in January 1949 and brand information technology to New Orleans. In Algiers 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 once more leaves Marylou to exist with Camille. "Dean will exit you out in the common cold anytime it is in the interest of him," Marylou tells Sal. Both of them stay briefly in a hotel, just soon she moves out, following a nightclub owner. Sal is alone and on Market Street has visions of past lives, nascency, and rebirth. Dean finds him and invites him to stay with his family. Together, they visit nightclubs and listen to Slim Gaillard and other jazz musicians. The stay ends on a sour annotation: "what I accomplished by coming to Frisco I don't know," and Sal departs, taking the bus back to New York.

Part Three [edit]

In the spring of 1949, Sal takes a motorbus from New York to Denver. He is depressed and lonesome; none of his friends are around. After receiving some money, he leaves Denver for San Francisco to come across Dean. Camille is pregnant and unhappy, and Dean has injured his pollex 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: "Y'all have absolutely no regard for everyone merely yourself and your kicks." Sal realizes she is right—Dean is the "HOLY GOOF"—but also defends him, as "he'due south got the secret that we're all busting to observe out." Later on a dark of jazz and drinking in Little Harlem on Folsom Street, they depart. On the mode to Sacramento they come across a "fag", who propositions them. Dean tries to hustle some coin out of this but is turned downward. During this function 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 beingness the older of the two. They become a 1947 Cadillac that needs to be taken to Chicago from a travel bureau. Dean drives virtually of the way, crazy, careless, often speeding at over one hundred miles per hour (160 km/h), delivering the car in a disheveled state. By bus they move on to Detroit and spend a night on Skid Row, Dean hoping to detect his homeless father. From Detroit they share a ride to New York and go far at Sal's aunt'due south new flat in Long Island. They keep partying in New York, where Dean meets Inez and gets her significant while his wife is expecting their 2nd kid.

Role Four [edit]

In the bound of 1950, Sal gets the itch to travel again while Dean is working every bit a parking lot bellboy in Manhattan, living with his girlfriend Inez. Sal notices that he has been reduced to simple pleasures—listening to basketball game games and looking at erotic playing cards. By bus Sal takes to the route again, passing Washington, D.C., Ashland, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, and eventually reaching Denver. In that location he meets Stan Shephard, and the two plan to go to Mexico City when they larn that Dean has bought a motorcar and is on the way to join them. In a rickety '37 Ford sedan the three prepare off across Texas to Laredo, where they cross the border. They are ecstatic, having left "everything behind us and inbound a new and unknown phase of things." Their money buys more (ten cents for a beer), police are laid back, cannabis is readily available, and people are curious and friendly. The mural is magnificent. In Gregoria, they meet Victor, a local kid, who leads them to a bordello where they have their terminal thousand party, dancing to mambo, drinking, and having fun with prostitutes. In Mexico City Sal becomes ill from dysentery and is "delirious and unconscious." Dean leaves him, and Sal later reflects: "When I got better I realized what a rat he was, just and then I had to empathize the impossible complication of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes."

Part Five [edit]

Dean, having obtained divorce papers in Mexico, had first returned to New York to marry Inez, only to leave her and go back to Camille. Afterwards his recovery from dysentery in Mexico, Sal returns to New York in the fall. He finds a girl, Laura, and plans to move with her to San Francisco. Sal writes to Dean well-nigh his plan to motility to San Francisco. Dean writes dorsum saying that he's willing to come up and accompany Laura and Sal. Dean arrives more than than five weeks early, merely Sal is out taking a belatedly-nighttime walk lonely. Sal returns home, sees a copy of Proust, and knows it is Dean'south. Sal realizes his friend has arrived, only at a fourth dimension when Sal doesn't accept the coin to relocate to San Francisco. On hearing this Dean makes the decision to head dorsum to Camille, Sal's friend Remi Boncoeur denies Sal's request to requite Dean a short elevator to 40th Street on their fashion to a Duke Ellington concert at the Metropolitan Opera House. Sal'south girlfriend Laura realizes this is a painful moment for Sal and prompts him for a response as the party drives off without Dean. Sal replies: "He'll be alright". Sal afterwards reflects as he sits on a river pier under a New Jersey night sky most the roads and lands of America that he has travelled and states: "... I think of Dean Moriarty, I fifty-fifty think of Former Dean Moriarty the father we never establish, I think of Dean Moriarty."

Characters [edit]

Kerouac often based his fictional characters on friends and family.^{[15] [sixteen]}

Considering of the objections of my early on publishers I was non immune to use the same personae names in each work.^[17]

Real-life person	Character name
Jack Kerouac	Sal Paradise
Gabrielle Kerouac (Jack Kerouac's female parent)	Sal Paradise'southward Aunt
Joan Kerouac (born Haverty)	Laura
Alan Ansen	Rollo Greb
William S. Burroughs	Erstwhile Balderdash Lee
Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs	Jane Lee
William S. Burroughs Jr.	Ray Lee
Julie Burroughs	Dodie Lee
Lucien Carr	Damion
Neal Cassady	Dean Moriarty
Neal Cassady, Sr.	Old Dean Moriarty
Neal Cassady'due south cousin	Sam Brady
Carolyn Cassady	Camille
Jamie Cassady	Joanie Moriarty
Catherine Cassady	Amy Moriarty
Bea Franco (Beatrice Kozera)	Terry
Allen Ginsberg	Carlo Marx
John Clellon Holmes	Ian MacArthur
Herbert Huncke	Elmer Hassel
William Holmes "Big Slim" Hubbard	William Holmes "Big Slim" Take a chance
Ruth Gullion	Rita Bettencourt
Helen Gullion	Mary Bettencourt
Diana Hansen	Inez
Beverly Burford	Babe Rawlins
Bob Burford	Ray Rawlins
Dianne Orin	Lee Ann
Henri Cru	Remi Boncœur
Paul Blake (Jack Kerouac's brother-in-police)	Rocco
Al Hinkle	Ed Dunkel
Helen Hinkle	Galatea Dunkel
Bill Tomson	Roy Johnson
Helen Tomson (Pecker Tomson's wife)	Dorothy Johnson
Jim Holmes	Tommy Snark
Gregorio	Victor
Frank Jeffries	Stan Shepard
Gene Pippin	Factor Dexter
Jinny Bakery Lehrman	Jinny Jones
Victorino Tejera	Victor Villanueva
Walter Adams	Walter Evans
Jose García Villa	Angel Luz García
Ed Uhl	Ed Wall
Justin Due west. Brierly	Denver D. Doll
Ed White	Tim Grayness
Joanie White (Ed White's sister)	Betty Gray
LuAnne Henderson	Marylou
Pauline	Lucille
Vicki Russell	Dorie, "Tall redhead"
Rhoda	Mona
Ed Stringham	Tom Saybrook
Kells Elvins	Dale
Lorraine	Marie
Alan Harrington	Hal Hingham
Ginger Hunt	Peaches
Haldon "Hal" Chase	Chad King
Allan Temko	Roland Major
Gregory La Cava	"The famous director"
	Mr. Snow

Reception [edit]

The book received a mixed reaction from the media in 1957. Some of the earlier reviews spoke highly of the book, simply the backlash to these was swift and strong. Although this was discouraging to Kerouac, he nonetheless received great recognition and notoriety from the work. Since its publication, critical attention has focused on bug of both the context and the mode, addressing the deportment of the characters besides as the nature of Kerouac's prose.

Initial reaction [edit]

In his review for The New York Times, Gilbert Millstein wrote, "its publication is a historic occasion insofar as the exposure of an authentic work of art is of any neat moment in an age in which the attention is fragmented and the sensibilities are blunted past the superlatives of fashion" and praised it as "a major novel."^[1] Millstein was already sympathetic toward the Vanquish Generation and his promotion of the volume in the Times did wonders for its recognition and acclaim. Not only did he like the themes, but besides the fashion, which would come up to be just equally hotly contested in the reviews that followed. "There are sections of On the Road in which the writing is of a beauty nearly breathtaking ... in that location is some writing on jazz that has never been equaled in American fiction, either for insight, style, or technical virtuosity."^[1] Kerouac and Joyce Johnson, a younger writer he was living with, read the review soon after midnight at a newsstand at 69th Street and Broadway, near Joyce's apartment in the Upper West Side. They took their re-create of the newspaper to a neighborhood bar and read the review over and over. "Jack kept shaking his head," Joyce remembered afterwards in her memoir Minor Characters, "as if he couldn't figure out why he wasn't happier than he was." Finally, they returned to her apartment to become to sleep. Every bit Joyce recalled: "Jack lay downward obscure for the last time in his life. The ringing phone woke him the adjacent morn, and he was famous."^[xviii]

The backlash began only a few days later in the same publication. David Dempsey published a review that contradicted most of what Millstein had promoted in the book. "As a portrait of a disjointed segment of social club acting out of its ain neurotic necessity, On the Road, is a stunning achievement. Just it is a route, as far as the characters are concerned, that leads to nowhere." While he did not disbelieve the stylistic nature of the text (maxim that it was written "with great relish"), he dismissed the content as a "passionate lark" rather than a novel.^[19]

Other reviewers were too less than impressed. Phoebe Lou Adams in Atlantic Monthly wrote that it "disappoints because it constantly promises a revelation or a conclusion of real importance and general applicability, and cannot deliver any such conclusion because Dean is more convincing as an eccentric than as a representative of any segment of humanity."^[twenty] While she liked the writing and found a proficient theme, her business concern was repetition. "Everything Mr. Kerouac has to say about Dean has been told in the commencement third of the book, and what comes later is a series of variations on the same theme."^[20]

Robert Kirsch in The Los Angeles Times said, "Mr. Kerouac may one day be a good author, just that day volition come up when he stops riding effectually in a compulsive search for "fabric" and settles down to learn some of the first things about the arts and crafts...Mr. Kerouac calls this "The Beat Generation," merely a much more accurate description would be "The Deadbeat Generation." I don't know whether such people really be, but if they do, he has thoroughly failed to make them believable."^[21]

The review from Fourth dimension exhibited a similar sentiment. "The post-World War II generation—beat or beatific—has non found symbolic spokesmen with anywhere about the talents of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, or Nathanael West. In this novel, talented Author Kerouac, 35, does not join that literary league, either, but at to the lowest degree suggests that his generation is not silent. With his barbaric yawp of a book, Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean."^[22] It considers the book partly a travel book and partly a collection of periodical jottings. While Kerouac sees his characters equally "mad to alive ... desirous of everything at the aforementioned time," the reviewer likens them to cases of "psychosis that is a diversity of Ganser Syndrome" who "aren't really mad—they but seem to be."^[22]

Critical study [edit]

Thomas Pynchon describes On the Road as "1 of the smashing American novels".^[23]

On the Road has been the object of critical report since its publication. David Brooks of The New York Times compiled several opinions and summarized them in an Op-Ed from Oct 2, 2007. Whereas Millstein saw it as a story in which the heroes took pleasance in everything, George Mouratidis, an editor of a new edition, claimed "above all else, the story is virtually loss." "It's a book about expiry and the search for something meaningful to hold on to—the famous search for 'It,' a truth larger than the self, which, of class, is never institute," wrote Meghan O'Rourke in Slate. "Kerouac was this deep, lonely, melancholy man," Hilary Holladay of the University of Massachusetts Lowell told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "And if you lot read the volume closely, y'all meet that sense of loss and sorrow swelling on every folio." "In truth, 'On the Road' is a book of cleaved dreams and failed plans," wrote Ted Gioia in The Weekly Standard.^[24]

John Leland, author of Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Non What You Think), says "We're no longer shocked by the sexual practice and drugs. The slang is passé and at times corny. Some of the racial sentimentality is appalling" but adds "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 when our grandchildren celebrate the volume'due south hundredth anniversary."^[25]

To Brooks, this label seems limited. "Reading through the ceremony commemorations, you experience the gravitational pull of the great Boomer Narcissus. All cultural artifacts have to be interpreted through whatsoever experiences the Baby Boomer generation is going through at that moment. And then a book formerly known for its youthful exuberance now becomes a gloomy center-aged disillusion."^[24] He laments how the book's spirit seems to have been tamed by the professionalism of America today and how information technology has only survived in parts. The more reckless and youthful parts of the text that gave it its energy are the parts that have "run afoul of the new gentility, the rules laid downward past the health experts, childcare experts, guidance counselors, safety advisers, admissions officers, virtuecrats and employers to regulate the lives of the young."^[24] He claims that the "ethos" of the book has been lost.

Mary Pannicia Carden feels that traveling was a way for the characters to assert their independence: they "attempt to supercede the model of manhood dominant in capitalist America with a model rooted in foundational American ideals of conquest and self-discovery."^[26] "Reassigning disempowering elements of patriarchy to female person keeping, they attempt to substitute male brotherhood for the nuclear family and to replace the ladder of success with the freedom of the road every bit main measures of male person identity."^[26]

Kerouac's writing style has attracted the attention of critics. On the Route has been considered by Tim Hunt to be a transitional phase between the traditional narrative structure of The Town and the City (1951) and the "wild form" of his after books similar Visions of Cody (1972).^[27] Kerouac's own explanation of his manner in "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" (1953) is that his writing is similar the Impressionist painters who sought to create fine art through directly observation. Matt Theado feels he endeavored to present a raw version of truth which did non lend itself to the traditional procedure of revision and rewriting but rather the emotionally charged practise of the spontaneity he pursued.^[28] Theado argues that the personal nature of the text helps foster a direct link between Kerouac and the reader; that his casual wording and very relaxed syntax was an intentional endeavor to depict events as they happened and to convey all of the free energy and emotion of the experiences.^[28]

Music in On the Road [edit]

Music is an important part of the scene that Kerouac sets in On the Road. Early in the book (Pt. 1, Ch. 3), he establishes the time period with references to the musical world: "At this time, 1947, bop was going like mad all over America. The fellows at the Loop blew, but with a tired air, because bop was somewhere between its Charlie Parker Ornithology period and another menstruum that began with Miles Davis. And as I sat there listening to that sound of the night which bop has come to represent for all of u.s.a., I idea of all my friends from i terminate of the country to the other and how they were actually all in the same vast backyard doing something and then frantic and rushing-well-nigh."

Main characters Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty are clearly enthusiastic fans of the jazz/bebop and early rhythm-and-blues musicians and records that were in the musical mix during the years when story took place, 1947 to 1950. Sal, Dean, and their friends are repeatedly depicted listening to specific records and going to clubs to hear their musical favorites.

For example, in one of two separate passages where they get to clubs to hear British jazz pianist George Shearing, the effect of the music is described equally almost overwhelming for Dean (Pt. 2, Ch. 4): "Shearing began to play his chords; they rolled out of the piano in great rich showers, you'd recall the man wouldn't have time to line them upwards. They rolled and rolled like the sea. Folks yelled for him to 'Become!' Dean was sweating; the sweat poured down his collar. 'In that location he is! That'due south him! Old God! Sometime God Shearing! Yeah! Aye! Yes!' And Shearing was conscious of the madman behind him, he could hear every ane of Dean'southward gasps and imprecations, he could sense it though he couldn't run into. 'That'south right!' Dean said. 'Yes!' Shearing smiled; he rocked. Shearing rose from the piano, dripping with sweat; these were his great 1949 days before he became cool and commercial. When he was gone Dean pointed to the empty piano seat. 'God's empty chair,' he said."

Kerouac mentions many other musical artists and their records throughout On the Road: Charlie Parker – "Ornithology" (Pt. i, Ch. 3; also Pt. 3, Ch. ten); Lionel Hampton – "Central Avenue Breakup" (Pt. 1, Ch. 13; also Pt. 4, Ch. iv); Billie Vacation – "Lover Man" (Pt.1, Ch. thirteen; also Pt. 3, Ch. 4); Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray – "The Hunt" (Pt. 2, Ch. 1; Pt. ii, Ch. iv); Empty-headed Gillespie – "Congo Blues" (Pt. iii, Ch. 7 – recorded under Red Norvo'south proper name and also featuring Charlie Parker; also Pt. 3, Ch. x; Pt. 4, Ch. iii); Willis Jackson – "Gator Tail" (Pt. iv, Ch. 1 – recorded with the Cootie Williams Orchestra); Wynonie Harris – "I Like My Baby's Pudding" (Pt. iv, Ch. iv); and Perez Prado -- "More Mambo Jambo," "Chattanooga de Mambo," "Mambo Numero Ocho" ("Mambo No. eight") (Pt. 4, Ch. v).

Kerouac also notes several other musical artists without mentioning specific records: Miles Davis (Pt. 1, Ch. 3; Pt. iii, Ch. 10); George Shearing and his drummer Denzil Best (Pt. 2, Ch. four; Pt. 3, Ch. ten); Slim Gaillard (Pt. 2, Ch. 11); Lester Immature (Pt. 3, Ch. ten; Pt. 4, Ch. i); Louis Armstrong (Pt. 3, Ch. 10); Roy Eldridge (Pt. 3, Ch. 10); Count Basie (Pt. three, Ch. 10); Bennie Moten (Pt. iii, Ch. ten); Hot Lips Page (Pt. 3, Ch. 10); Thelonious Monk (Pt. three, Ch. ten); Anita O'Twenty-four hours (Pt. 3, Ch. x); Stan Getz (Pt. 4, Ch. 1); Lucky Millinder (Pt. iv, Ch. 4); and Duke Ellington (Pt. 5).

Jazz and other types of music are besides featured more generally equally a backdrop, with the characters often listening to music in clubs or on the radio. For example, while driving across the upper Midwest toward New York City, Sal mentions that he and Dean are listening to the radio show of well-known jazz deejay Symphony Sid Torin (Pt. 3, Ch. 11).

Kerouac even delves into the classical music genre briefly, having Sal attend a performance of Beethoven's sole opera, Fidelio (1805), in Primal Urban center, Colorado, as performed by "stars of the Metropolitan" who are visiting the area for the summer (Pt. 1, Ch. ix).

Influence [edit]

On the Road has been an influence on various poets, writers, actors and musicians, including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia, David Bowie and Hunter Southward. Thompson.

From journalist Sean O'Hagan, in a 2007 article published in The Guardian:

'It changed my life similar information technology changed everyone else's,' Dylan would say many years later. Tom Waits, also, acknowledged its influence, hymning Jack and Neal in a song and calling the Beats "father figures." At least two great American photographers were influenced past Kerouac: Robert Frank, who became his close friend—Kerouac wrote the introduction to Frank's volume, The Americans—and Stephen Shore, who set out on an American road trip in the 1970s with Kerouac's book as a guide. It would exist hard to imagine Hunter S. Thompson's route novel Fearfulness and Loathing in Las Vegas had On the Road not laid down the template; likewise, films such as Easy Passenger, Paris, Texas, and even Thelma and Louise.^[29]

In his volume Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors, Ray Manzarek (keyboard role player of The Doors) wrote "I suppose if Jack Kerouac had never written On the Road, The Doors would never have existed."

On the Route influenced an entire generation of musicians, poets, and writers including Allen Ginsberg. Because of Ginsberg's friendship with Kerouac, Ginsberg was written into the novel through the character Carlo Marx. Ginsberg recalled that he was attracted to the crush generation, and Kerouac, because the beats valued "detachment from the existing society," while at the same time calling for an firsthand release from a civilisation in which the well-nigh "freely" accessible items—bodies and ideas—seemed restricted (i). Ginsberg incorporated a sense of freedom of prose and style into his poetry as a result of the influence of Kerouac (1).^[30]

Eric Kripke, creator of long-running series Supernatural, has besides cited On the Road as a major inspiration for the fantasy serial.^[31]

Motion-picture show adaptation [edit]

A film adaptation of On the Road had been proposed in 1957 when Jack Kerouac wrote a ane-page letter of the alphabet to actor Marlon Brando, suggesting that he play Dean Moriarty while Kerouac would portray Sal Paradise.^[32] Brando never responded to the letter; later on Warner Bros. offered $110,000 for the rights to Kerouac's book, but his agent, Sterling Lord, declined it, hoping for a $150,000 deal from Paramount Pictures, which did not occur.^[32]

The motion picture rights were bought in 1980 by producer Francis Ford Coppola for $95,000.^[33] Coppola tried out several screenwriters, including Michael Herr, Barry Gifford, and novelist Russell Banks, even writing a draft himself with his son Roman, before settling on José Rivera.^{[34] [35]} Several dissimilar plans were considered: Joel Schumacher equally director, with Baton Crudup as Sal Paradise, and Colin Farrell as Dean Moriarty; then Ethan Hawke every bit Paradise and Brad Pitt as Moriarty; in 1995, he planned to shoot on blackness-and-white 16mm film and held auditions with poet Allen Ginsberg in attendance, but all those projects fell through.^[35]

After seeing Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Coppola appointed Salles to direct the moving picture.^[36] In training for the pic, Salles traveled the U.s.a., tracing Kerouac's journeying and filming a documentary on the search for On the Road.^[37] Sam Riley starred as Sal Paradise. Garrett Hedlund portrayed Dean Moriarty.^[37] Kristen Stewart played Mary Lou.^[38] Kirsten Dunst portrayed Camille.^[39] The film screened at the Cannes Moving picture Festival in 2012^[40] and was nominated for the Palme d'Or.^[41]

In 2007, BBC Iv aired Russell Brand On the Road, a documentary presented by Russell Brand and Matt Morgan about Kerouac, focusing on On the Road. The documentary American Road, which explores the mystique of the road in US culture and contains an ample department on Kerouac, premiered at the AMFM Festival in California on fourteen June 2013, when it won the award for Best Documentary.^[42]

Beat Generation [edit]

While many critics still consider the word "beat" in its literal sense of "tired and browbeaten down," others, including Kerouac himself promoted the generation more than in sense of "beatific" or blissful.^[43] Holmes and Kerouac published several articles in popular magazines in an attempt to explain the movement. In the November 16, 1952 New York Times Sunday Magazine, he wrote a piece exposing the faces of the Beat Generation. "[O]ne twenty-four hours [Kerouac] said, 'You know, this is a actually beat out generation' ... More than than mere weariness, it implies the feeling of having been used, of being raw. It involves a sort of nakedness of listen, and ultimately, of soul: a feeling of existence reduced to the bedrock of consciousness. In short, it ways beingness undramatically pushed up confronting the wall of oneself."^[44] He distinguishes Beats from the Lost Generation of the 1920s pointing out how the Beats are not lost simply how they are searching for answers to all of life's questions. Kerouac's preoccupation with writers like Ernest Hemingway shaped his view of the vanquish generation. He uses a prose style which he adjusted from Hemingway and throughout On the Route he alludes to novels like The Dominicus Likewise Rises. "How to alive seems much more than crucial than why."^[44] 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 Esquire magazine. This commodity was able to take more of a look dorsum at the formation of the movement as it was published after On the Road. "Information technology describes the state of mind from which all unessentials have been stripped, leaving information technology receptive to everything around it, but impatient with lilliputian obstructions. To be trounce is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up."^[45]

Encounter also [edit]

• Off the Route (1990 book by Carolyn Cassady)
• Dearest Always, Carolyn
• Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road
• Listing of most expensive books and manuscripts

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Gilbert Millstein (5 September 1957). "Books of the Times" (PDF). The New York Times.
2. ^ "ALL-Fourth dimension 100 Novels: The Complete Listing". TIME Magazine. 2005. Archived from the original on October 19, 2005.
3. ^ Ann Charters (2003). Introduction to On the Route. New York: Penguin Classics.
4. ^ Brinkley, Douglas (Nov 1998). "In the Kerouac Archive". Atlantic Monthly. pp. 49–76.
5. ^ Charters, Ann (1973). Kerouac: A Biography. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books.
6. ^ John Leland (2007). Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) . New York: Viking. p. 17.
7. ^ Nicosia, Gerald (1994). Memory Babe: A Disquisitional Biography of Jack Kerouac. Berkeley: Academy of California Press.
8. ^ Sante, Luc (August nineteen, 2007). Review: On The Road Again . New York Times Book Review.
9. ^ Latham, A. (January 28, 1973). "Visions of Cody". The New York Times.
10. ^ Cowley, Malcolm Cowley & Young, Thomas Daniel (1986). Conversations with Malcolm Cowley . Academy Press of Mississippi. p. 111. {{cite volume}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
11. ^ Bignell, Paul (July 29, 2007). "On the Road (uncensored). Discovered: Kerouac "cuts"". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-02 .
12. ^ Anctil, Gabriel (5 September 2007). "Le Devoir: fifty years of On The Road—Kerouac wanted to write in French". Le Devoir (in French). Quebec, Canada. Retrieved 2010-12-xiii .
13. ^ "Exhibitions: Kerouac". bl.uk.
14. ^ $fifty in 1947
15. ^ Sandison, David. Jack Kerouac: An Illustrated Biography. Chicago: Chicago Review Printing. 1999
16. ^ "Beatdom - Who'south Who: A Guide to Kerouac'south Characters". beatdom.com.
17. ^ Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. London and New York: Penguin Books Ltd. 1993.
18. ^ Ann Charters' introduction to the 1991 edition of On the Road
19. ^ David Dempsey (8 September 1957). "In Pursuit of 'Kicks'". The New York Times.
20. ^ ^{a b} Atlantic Monthly, Oct 1957.
21. ^ Kirsch, Robert (4 Oct 1957). "The Volume Report". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 6 December 2021.
22. ^ ^{a b} "Books: The Ganser Syndrome". Time Magazine. September 16, 1957.
23. ^ Thomas Pynchon (13 June 2012). Slow Learner. Penguin Publishing Grouping. p. 3. ISBN978-1-101-59461-2.
24. ^ ^{a b c} Brooks, David (October 2, 2007). "Sal Paradise at fifty". The New York Times . Retrieved 16 April 2012.
25. ^ Leland, John (2007). Amazon.com: Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) - Questions for John Leland. ISBN978-0670063253.
26. ^ ^{a b} Carden, Mary Pannicia (2009). Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton (ed.). "'Adventures in Auto-Eroticism': Economies of Traveling Masculinity in On the Road and The Start Third". What'southward Your Road, Homo?. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press: 169–185.
27. ^ Tim Hunt (2009). Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton (ed.). "Typetalking: Vocalization and Performance in On the Road". What's Your Route, Homo?. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press: 169–185.
28. ^ ^{a b} Matt Theado (2000). Understanding Jack Kerouac. Columbia, SC: Academy of South Carolina Printing.
29. ^ O'Hagan, Sean (August five, 2007). "America's offset king of the route". The Guardian. London. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
30. ^ Johnston, Allan. "Consumption, Addiction, Vision, Energy: Political Economies and Utopian Visions in the Writings of the Beat Generation." Higher Literature 32.2 (Spring 2005): 103-126. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Ed. Michelle Lee. Vol. 95. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Literature Resources Center. Web. 13 Apr. 2015.
31. ^ "'Supernatural' and 'Timeless' creator Eric Kripke details the real-life inspirations behind his fantasy serial". Los Angeles Times. 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2021-05-10 .
32. ^ ^{a b} Scott Martelle (4 June 2005). "On the route again". The Historic period.
33. ^ Maher, Paul Jr. Kerouac: The Definitive Biography. Lanham, Doc.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 1994, 317.
34. ^ Stephen Galloway (9 May 2012). "How On The Road Slashed Kristen Stewart's $20 1000000 Paycheck and Finally Fabricated information technology to Screen". The Hollywood Reporter.
35. ^ ^{a b} James Mottram (12 September 2008). "The long and grinding story of On The Road". The Independent. Archived from the original on June 1, 2009.
36. ^ Karen Soloman (17 August 2010). "Hollywood comes to Gatineau to film On the Road". CTV News.
37. ^ ^{a b} Kemp, Stuart (May 6, 2010). "Kristen Stewart goes On the Road". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2010-05-thirteen. Retrieved 2010-05-07 .
38. ^ "Kristen Stewart to star in Jack Kerouac story". USA Today. 5 May 2010.
39. ^ John Hopewell; Elsa Keslassy (12 May 2010). "Dunst joins Stewart On the Road". Variety. ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
40. ^ Release dates for On the Route
41. ^ Awards for On the Road
42. ^ "AMFM Fest Bestows Awards on First Course of Films". palmspringslife.com.
43. ^ Alan Bisbort (2010). Beatniks: a guide to an American subculture. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. p. 3.
44. ^ ^{a b} Holmes, John Clellon (Nov 19, 1952). "This is the Shell Generation". The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
45. ^ Holmes, John Clellon (February 1958). "The Philosophy of the Beat Generation". Esquire: 35–38.

Farther reading [edit]

• Gifford, Barry & Lee, Lawrence (2005), Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, ISBN1-56025-739-three
• Holladay, Hilary, and Robert Holton, eds. What's Your Road, Man? Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Academy Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0809328833
• Leland, John (2007), Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Call back) , New York: Viking Press, ISBN978-0-670-06325-3
• Nicosia, Gerald (1994), Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN0-520-08569-8
• Theado, Matt (2000), Agreement Jack Kerouac, Columbia SC: University of SC Printing, ISBN978-1-57003-846-4
• Hrebeniak, Michael (2006), Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form, Carbondale Il: Southern Illinois University Press, ISBN978-0-8093-8789-ii

External links [edit]

• Definitive guide to the 600 characters in Kerouac's and related novels
• On The Road Scroll Maker machine
• The Trounce Museum in San Francisco
• On the Road at Open Library
• Map of Sal Paradise's First Trip across the The states
• Interactive Google Maps of the Four Trips in On the Road
• The Illustrated On the Road past Christopher Panzner

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