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- He takes pride in the way he and his friends refuse to be part of the mainstream society and consumer politics which were starting to develop in the 1950s. Throughout his novel, Kerouac expresses critique against American conformity and consumerism of the 1950s and manages to influence future generations in their view of modern American life.
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Between 1947 and 1950, while writing what would become The Town and the City (1950), Kerouac engaged in the road adventures that would form On the Road. Kerouac carried small notebooks, in which much of the text was written as the eventful span of road trips unfurled.
- Jack Kerouac
- 1957
It is one thing to criticize Kerouac's verbosity, repetitiveness, and sentimentality; it is quite another to dismiss his work entirely because his characters lead unconventional...
Sep 5, 2017 · Likely fueled by Benzedrine—although he claimed to have taken in nothing stronger than coffee—Kerouac wrote the novel as fast as he could think it, and in doing so defined a generation and helped...
Aug 20, 2021 · The gestation of "On the Road" was long and frustrating for Jack Kerouac, who regularly saw his work dismissed by publishers even as a greater circle of friends and admirers came to champion it as the product of a powerful new voice in 20th century American literature.
Sep 4, 2017 · Everybody say “Awww.”. The Beat author’s revered novel – which nearly failed to secure a publisher – turns 60 today. David Barnett looks at its enduring appeal and why it will always ...
What is the rising action in On the Road? What is the climax of the book On the Road? Does Jack Kerouac's On the Road affirm or reject 1950s conformity?
Dec 27, 2012 · That’s important for a couple of reasons: It signals the novel’s hunger for new experience, for a way out of the conformist pieties of post-World War II America, and also Kerouac’s desire to...
