- Beat generation, Fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Beat generation in literature
Described as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this story amounts to a nonfiction novel (as critics were later to describe some works). Unpublished writer buddies wander from coast to coast in search of whatever they find, eager for experience. Kerouac's spokesman is Sal Paradise (himself) and real-life friend Neal Casady appears as Dean Moriarty.
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- earnestironic
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- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Jack Kerouac
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 310
- Publisher
- Anagrama, Penguin USA, Inc., Pearson Education, Limited
- Editions
- 155
- Language
- German, Japanese, tur, heb
- ISBN
- 9781417624713
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“I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.”
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
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