"read"". In 1955, he began an intensive study of this sutra, in a repeating weekly cycle, devoting one day to each of the six Pāramitās, and the seventh to the concluding passage on Samādhi. This was his sole reading on Desolation Peak, and he hoped by this means to condition his mind to emptiness, and possibly to have a vision. An often overlooked literary influence on Kerouac was James Joyce, whose work he alludes to more than any other author. Kerouac had high esteem for Joyce and he often used Joyce's stream-of-consciousness technique. Regarding ""On the Road"", he wrote in"
"On the Road On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. 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. The novel, published in 1957, is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the"
"published after ""On the Road"". ""It describes the state of mind from which all unessentials have been stripped, leaving it receptive to everything around it, but impatient with trivial obstructions. To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up."" On the Road On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. 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. The novel,"
"narrator Sal Paradise. 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. It was first published by Viking Press in 1957. When the book was originally released, ""The New York Times"" hailed it 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"
"was changed by the publication of Jack Kerouac's ""On the Road"" in 1957, as it sketched out the future for the road movie and provided its ""master narrative"" of exploration, questing, and journeying. The book includes many descriptions of driving in cars. It also depicted the character Sal Paradise, a middle class college student who goes on the road to seek material for his writing career, a bounded journey with a clear start and finish which differs from the open ended wandering of previous films, with characters making chance encounters with other drivers who influence where one travels or ends"
"write regularly. Building upon previous drafts tentatively titled ""The Beat Generation"" and ""Gone on the Road,"" Kerouac completed what is now known as ""On the Road"" in April 1951, while living at 454 West 20th Street in Manhattan with his second wife, Joan Haverty. The book was largely autobiographical and describes Kerouac's road-trip adventures across the United States and Mexico with Neal Cassady in the late 40s and early 50s, as well as his relationships with other Beat writers and friends. He completed the first version of the novel during a three-week extended session of spontaneous confessional prose. Kerouac wrote"
"up. To contrast the intellectual Sal character, Kerouac has the juvenile delinquent Dean, a wild, fast-driving character who represents the idea that the road provides liberation. By depicting a movie character who was marginalized and who could not be incorporated into mainstream American culture, Kerouac opened the way for road movies to depict a more diverse range of characters, rather than just heterosexual couples (e.g., ""It Happened One Night""), groups on the move (e.g., ""The Grapes of Wrath""), notably the pair of male buddies. ""On the Road"" and another novel published in the same era, Vladimir Nabokov's novel ""Lolita"" (1955),"
"on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by ""Time"" magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. After Kerouac dropped out of Columbia University, he served on several different sailing vessels before returning to New York to write. He met and mixed with Beat Generation figures Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. 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"
"dominant in capitalist America with a model rooted in foundational American ideals of conquest and self-discovery."" ""Reassigning disempowering elements of patriarchy to female keeping, they attempt to substitute male brotherhood for the nuclear family and to replace the ladder of success with the freedom of the road as primary measures of male identity."" Kerouac's writing style has attracted the attention of critics. ""On the Road"" has been considered by Tim Hunt to be a transitional phase between the traditional narrative structure of ""The Town and the City"" (1951) and the ""wild form"" of his later books like ""Visions of Cody"""
"least suggests that his generation is not silent. With his barbaric yawp of a book, Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean."" It considers the book partly a travel book and partly a collection of journal jottings. While Kerouac sees his characters as ""mad to live ... desirous of everything at the same time,"" the reviewer likens them to cases of ""psychosis that is a variety of Ganser Syndrome"" who ""aren't really mad—they only seem to be."" Thomas Pynchon describes ""On The Road"" as ""one of the great American novels"". ""On the Road"" has been the object"
"imaginative treatise on Buddhism, while living there. Publishers rejected ""On the Road"" because of its experimental writing style and its sexual content. Many editors were also uncomfortable with the idea of publishing a book that contained what were, for the era, graphic descriptions of drug use and homosexual behavior—a move that could result in obscenity charges being filed, a fate that later befell Burroughs' ""Naked Lunch"" and Ginsberg's ""Howl"". According to Kerouac, ""On the Road"" ""was really a story about two Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God. And we found him. I found him in the sky,"
"novel ""On the Road"" (1957). In her review in ""The New York Times"", Tara McKelvey wrote ""Kerouac’s soul lives on through many people — Joyce Johnson, for one — but few have been as adept as Weaver at capturing both him and the New York bohemia of the time. He was lucky to have met her."" Helen Weaver grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Her father, Warren Weaver, was a scientist, author, and world traveler who was Director of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation for twenty-seven years. Her mother, Mary Hemenway Weaver, taught Latin and ancient history. Weaver graduated"
"of ""On the Road"", as many scholars, such as Paul Maher Jr., Joyce Johnson, Hassan Melehy, and Yannis Livadas have pointed out. Kerouac's early writing, particularly his first novel ""The Town and the City"", was more conventional, and bore the strong influence of Thomas Wolfe. The technique Kerouac developed that later made him famous was heavily influenced by Jazz, especially Bebop, and later, Buddhism, as well as the famous Joan Anderson letter written by Neal Cassady. The Diamond Sutra was the most important Buddhist text for Kerouac, and ""probably one of the three or four most influential things he ever"
"the May 31, 2012 edition of the ""Huffington Post"", blamed Francis Ford Coppola for having ""outsourced"" the film to ""a Brazilian director from a billionaire banking family who gentrified"" the novel's characters. Ehrmann, a pioneering New Journalism writer, covered the funeral of Jack Kerouac for ""Rolling Stone"" in 1969. ""On the Road"" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 17, 2012 by Icon Entertainment International. On the Road (film) On the Road () is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. It is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel ""On the Road"" and stars an ensemble"
"scroll""—a continuous, 120-foot scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together. The roll was typed single-spaced, without margins or paragraph breaks. 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. Kerouac wrote a number of inserts intended for ""On the Road"" between 1951 and 1952, before eventually omitting them from the manuscript and using them to form the basis of another work, ""Visions of Cody"" (1951–1952). ""On the Road"" was championed within Viking Press by Malcolm Cowley"
"On the Road (film) On the Road () is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. It is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel ""On the Road"" and stars an ensemble cast featuring Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Alice Braga, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst, and Viggo Mortensen. The executive producers were Francis Ford Coppola, Patrick Batteux, Jerry Leider, and Tessa Ross. Filming began on August 4, 2010, in Montreal, Quebec, with a $25 million budget. The story is based on the years Kerouac spent travelling the United States in the"
"version also uses the real names of the protagonists, so Dean Moriarty becomes Neal Cassady and Carlo Marx becomes Allen Ginsberg, etc. In 2007, Gabriel Anctil, a journalist of Montreal daily ""Le Devoir"", discovered in Kerouac's personal archives in New York almost 200 pages of his writings entirely in Quebec French, with colloquialisms. The collection included 10 manuscript pages of an unfinished version of ""On the Road"", written on January 19, 1951. The date of the writings makes Kerouac one of the earliest known authors to use colloquial Quebec French in literature. The original scroll of ""On The Road"" was"
"""Denver Post"" about Kerouac's first published novel, ""The Town and the City"", and organized a book signing for him in Denver. Kerouac's second novel, ""On the Road"" (1957), loosely fictionalized his experiences in the late 1940s, with a focus on his friendship with Cassady. Brierly accordingly had a major role in early manuscripts, which provided important context for Cassady's depiction, but Kerouac also took the opportunity to satirize Brierly at length. Due in part to the publisher's fear of a libel suit from Brierly, considered one of the few ""respectable"" figures in the book, Kerouac substantially trimmed his depiction. Brierly"
"Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road is a compilation album by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. The centrepiece of the record is a 28-minute recitation by Kerouac from his book ""On the Road"" that was recorded on an acetate disc in the 1950s but thought lost for decades, and had only recently been rediscovered at the time of release. Other tracks feature Kerouac singing renditions of Jazz hits from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s alongside songs and poems of his own composition. The album closes with a cover of Kerouac's track ""On the"
"the Road"", The Doors would never have existed."" ""On the Road"" influenced an entire generation of musicians, poets, and writers including Allen Ginsberg. Because of Ginsberg's friendship with Kerouac, Ginsberg was written into the novel through the character Carlo Marx. Ginsberg recalled that he was attracted to the beat generation, and Kerouac, because the beats valued ""detachment from the existing society,"" while at the same time calling for an immediate release from a culture in which the most ""freely"" accessible items—bodies and ideas—seemed restricted (1). Ginsberg incorporated a sense of freedom of prose and style into his poetry as a"
"Neal Cassady Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. He was prominently featured as himself in the ""scroll"" (first draft) version of Jack Kerouac<nowiki>'s</nowiki> novel ""On the Road"", and served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 version of that book. In many of Kerouac's later books, Cassady is represented by the character Cody Pomeray. Cassady also appeared in Allen Ginsberg's poems, and in several other works of literature by other writers. Cassady"
"give the show away - culottes, glossy leather, mini-skirts, boots - driving up in Mini-Coopers ... Rebellious sentiment is more obvious among the boys: long hair, square spectacles, Che Guevara [Cuban revolutionary, died 1967] beards. The picture in Nanterre in May was lots and lots of painted dollies cohabiting with unkempt revolutionaries. In the United States adherents of the ""beat"" counter-culture (probably best defined by Jack Kerouac's novel, ""On the Road"", set in the late 1940s, written in 1952 and published in 1957) were associated with black polo-neck (or turtle neck) sweaters, blue denim jeans and sandals. The influence of"
"long dash in place of a period. Several examples of this can be seen in ""Mexico City Blues"": Other well-known poems by Kerouac, such as ""Bowery Blues,"" incorporate jazz rhythms with Buddhist themes of Saṃsāra, the cycle of life and death, and Samadhi, the concentration of composing the mind. Also, following the jazz / blues tradition, Kerouac's poetry features repetition and themes of the troubles and sense of loss experienced in life. In 2007, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of ""On the Road""'s publishing, Viking issued two new editions: ""On the Road: The Original Scroll,"" and ""On the Road:"
"crusader, Senator Joseph McCarthy. In ""Desolation Angels"" he wrote, ""when I went to Columbia all they tried to teach us was Marx, as if I cared"" (considering Marxism, like Freudianism, to be an illusory tangent). In 1957, after being rejected by several other publishers, ""On the Road"" was finally purchased by Viking Press, which demanded major revisions prior to publication. Many of the more sexually explicit passages were removed and, fearing libel suits, pseudonyms were used for the book's ""characters."" These revisions have often led to criticisms of the alleged spontaneity of Kerouac's style. In July 1957, Kerouac moved to"
"Jack Kerouac's ""On the Road"", as the narrator travels by car back to her childhood home. The novel has also been compared to Sylvia Plath's ""The Bell Jar"". Atwood's unnamed narrator and Plath's Esther Greenwood are both driven to psychological breakdowns due to their unwillingness to adhere to the social expectations imposed on women. In her essay ""Margaret Atwood: Beyond Victimhood"", Marge Piercy was skeptical of the narrator's abrupt declaration of love for Joe at the end of the novel, saying it did not stop the narrator from being a victim: by choosing a man who opts to be a"
"Kerouac, and Carolyn Cassady in the late 1950s and the 1960s. It chronicles Jack Kerouac writing his seminal novel ""On the Road"", and its effect on their lives. Roger Ebert of ""The Chicago Sun-Times"" gave the film 2½ out of 4 stars and praised certain aspects of the film: The score was composed by Jack Nitzsche and included the song ""I Love Her Too"" co-written by Buffy Sainte-Marie and sung by Aaron Neville and the soundtrack prominently featured saxophonist Art Pepper and other West Coast jazz musicians with the soundtrack album released on the Capitol label. All compositions by Jack"
"she met Jack Kerouac in Bakersfield, California, and the two began a brief relationship that ended with Kerouac returning to New York. On July 21, 1963, she married LeRoy Kozera and settled in Fresno, California. In 1957 Kerouac published his novel ""On the Road"", in which Kozera featured as ""Terry"" (or ""Terry, the Mexican girl""). Kozera was unaware that their brief relationship had become the subject of Kerouac's novel - described as ""the book that defined a generation"" - until she was contacted in 2010 by author Tim Z. Hernandez. In 2012, a film version of Kerouac's book was produced"
"an engaging reader/performer himself."" Unterberger goes on to say that Kerouac's singing is ""unexpected, and amusing if not brilliant"". Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road is a compilation album by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. The centrepiece of the record is a 28-minute recitation by Kerouac from his book ""On the Road"" that was recorded on an acetate disc in the 1950s but thought lost for decades, and had only recently been rediscovered at the time of release. Other tracks feature Kerouac singing renditions of Jazz hits from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s"
"Drive in Downtown Arcadia, before turning off onto Colorado Place and then Colorado Street. After intersecting the 210 freeway, Route 66 runs parallel to and south of the freeway, cutting across the middle section of Arcadia. The city is mentioned by Jack Kerouac in his novel ""On the Road"": Sal, the protagonist, is put off by ""preppy"" teens when he stops for food at a local drive-in restaurant with a young Mexican woman. The vignette demonstrates the culture clash between the ""Beatnik"" way of life and that of 1950s conservative America. In a motel located in Arcadia across the street"
"and valid if you weren't dead, was a realization of the experiences you would be having down there, rail, home, and the most important, climate, by a remembrance of my own feelings and thoughts (former low, or more exactly, nostalgic and unreal; latter hi) as, for example, I too seemed to spend time looking out upper floor windows at sparse, especially night times, traffic in females—old or young. ""On the Road"" became a sensation. By capturing Cassady's voice, Kerouac discovered a unique style of his own that he called ""spontaneous prose,"" a stream of consciousness prose form. Cassady's own written"
"which much of the text was written as the eventful span of road trips unfurled. 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. However, he remained dissatisfied with the novel. Inspired by a 10000-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"
"ideas he developed from his Buddhist studies that began with Gary Snyder. He often referred to his style as ""spontaneous prose."" Although Kerouac's prose was spontaneous and purportedly without edits, he primarily wrote autobiographical novels (or ""roman à clef"") based upon actual events from his life and the people with whom he interacted. Many of his books exemplified this spontaneous approach, including ""On the Road"", ""Visions of Cody"", ""Visions of Gerard"", ""Big Sur"", and ""The Subterraneans"". The central features of this writing method were the ideas of breath (borrowed from jazz and from Buddhist meditation breathing), improvising words over the"
"critical juncture in Kerouac’s life, when the success of ""On the Road"" provided him with nationwide critical acclaim and commercial success, and pushed him and the other members of the Beat Generation into the spotlight. The Kerouac House, as it has come to be known, is now a living, literary tribute to Kerouac. The Kerouac Project began with a chance discovery by Bob Kealing, a reporter with the Orlando area NBC affiliate and freelance writer. In 1996 he learned that Jack Kerouac had been living in a c. 1920 Orlando cottage when his classic work ""On the Road"" was published"