Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make "On the Road" an inspirational work of lasting importance.
Chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West."
On the Road, Jack Kerouac's whirling, swirling celebration of the generation we call Beat, was first published in 1957, by The Viking Press in the States, and André Deutsch in the UK. To celebrate its fiftieth birthday, we're publishing the unexpurgated scroll for the first time, in a beautiful hardback edition that is absolutely exquisite. Legend has it that Kerouac wrote the novel in a fury of movement: fuelled by caffeine and cigarettes, he typed this magisterial work on a series of pieces of paper, taped together to make a rudimentary `scroll', flowing down the page, unstoppable, rather like the energetic road trip he and his friend, Neal Cassady, took across America, and that he documents in the novel.
For the first time, you can finally read exactly what Kerouac wrote - the edition we all know and love was strongly edited, to excise the more racy bits that were deemed to be too strong meat for the `50s crowd. References to sex and drugs - though not entirely expunged - were toned down and tempered. The text was chopped up into neat paragraphs, to be easy on the eye. But now you can read the full, out-of-breath paean to the heady joys of living with the wind in your hair and only a dollar in your pocket.
In the New York Times, Luc Sante writes that `The novel that "On the Road" became was inarguably the book that young people needed in 1957, but the sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version for our time.' Too right. If you haven't read the scroll yet, I envy you hugely.
在冬日破晓的黄雾下, 一群人鱼贯地流过伦敦桥,人数是那么多, 我没想到,死亡竟毁坏了这么多人。--艾略特《荒原》 这个春节,因为众所周知的原因,被关在家里已经大半个月了。通常这是一年里本应最热闹的时候,本应是全体中国人集体“在路上”的日子,无论是回家团聚的,还是...
评分花了一周的时间读完了这本美国的经典著作。开始的时候逐字逐句的阅读,到后面就开始囫囵吞枣,最后草草翻完,一无所获。 我以为是我的阅读能力出了问题,在网上瞄了下,才发现也许是翻译的原因而导致我无法完全理解书中所要传达的真实含义。我读的是王永年版本的,没读过英文...
评分“我还年轻,我渴望上路。”―― 杰克·凯鲁亚克 在很多人看来,上个世纪六十年代是一个伟大的时代。那个时代发生了很多大事,包括世界范围的左翼学生运动,第三世界国家争取民族独立的斗争,还有中国的文革等等。我们说这是一个“大时代”,并不是说它怎样影响了世界的进程,...
评分这个世界上有些书你知道你早晚会去读,《在路上》对于我来说属于这种。很多年前看两三行介绍,就知道你终究有一天会去找来读的书,就像和一个人对视两秒,就知道你们是否能心灵相通一样,要是从心理上掰碎了细嚼,也未必分析不出道理一二来,不过,那全无意义。 是的,全无意...
评分上周终于读了《在路上》。说是终于,因为这本书名气大,听过很多年,以至于总有奇怪的错觉——好像读过似的。 说说这本书的优点,为什么值得一读。首先,书名听起来文艺,但实际风格粗犷,旅途故事不空洞。其次是内容坦诚,面对偷窃和性,没有遮遮掩掩,是表里合一的洒脱和无所...
need a second reading
评分need a second reading
评分梦中惊醒于是我起来读完了它并且这次几乎屡顺了。现在是心宽天地阔,思绪在午夜狂奔奔奔......On the road, running to stand still. 好久没有这么high了
评分自由的叙事方式和不羁的精神内核成就了这样一篇不朽之作。
评分Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
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