Kerouac wrote a number of inserts intended for On the Road between 19, before eventually omitting them from the manuscript and using them to form the basis of another work, Visions of Cody (1951–1952). 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. The roll was typed single-spaced, without margins or paragraph breaks. The manuscript was typed on what he called "the scroll"-a continuous, 120-foot (37 m) scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together. 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 second wife, at 454 West 20th Street in New York City's Manhattan. And we found him." The scroll, exhibited at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum in 2007 It was really a story about two Catholic buddies, roaming the country, in search of God. In a letter to a student in 1961, Kerouac wrote: "Dean and I were embarked on a journey through post-Whitman America to FIND that America and to FIND the inherent goodness in American man. Inspired by 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, as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz. He started working on the first of several versions of the novel as early as 1948, based on experiences during his first long road trip in 1947, but he remained dissatisfied with the novel. Kerouac carried small notebooks, in which much of the text was written as the eventful span of road trips unfurled.
Between 19, while writing what would become The Town and the City (1950), Kerouac engaged in the road adventures that would form On the Road. He met and mixed with Beat Generation figures Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Production and publication Īfter Kerouac dropped out of Columbia University, he served on several different sailing vessels, before returning to New York to write. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. The New York Times hailed the book's appearance as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest, and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac, himself, named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It was published by Viking Press in 1957.
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The idea for On the Road, 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. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx), and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac, himself, as the narrator, Sal Paradise. The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement, such as William S. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States.
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