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Informationen zum Autor Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur , Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa , and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues . Jack Kerouac died in 1969. Klappentext Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. His most famous novels are On the Road , The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums . His first more orthodox published novel was The Town and the City . Jack Kerouac, who described himself as a 'strange solitary crazy Catholic mystic,' was working on his longest novel, a surrealistic study of the last ten years of his life when he died in 1969, aged forty-seven. Other works by Jack Kerouac include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa , and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues . On the Road: The Original Scroll , the full uncensored transcription of the original manuscript of On the Road , is published by Penguin Modern Classics. Zusammenfassung The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.
