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On the Road Author: Jack Kerouac Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
On the Road Author: Jack Kerouac Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book is the autobiographical masterpiece of Kerouac, a representative writer of the "Beat Generation". The original book was written in three weeks in April 1951 on a 30-meter-long roll of typed paper. In 2007, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, Viking Publishing House published the original manuscript without editing for the first time. The deleted parts were restored and the characters were restored to their real names. In addition to the English manuscript, this book also adds an introduction and simple notes, presenting On the Road to readers in its original Kerouac English.
About the Author · · · · · ·
JACK KEROUAC
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Born on March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, he was the youngest son of French-American parents. He attended local Catholic and public schools, and entered Columbia University in New York on a football scholarship, where he met members of the "Beat Generation" such as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady.
Kerouac dropped out of college in his sophomore year to pursue literary creation, and worked for the U.S. Navy and commercial shipping companies. In 1950, his first novel, The Town and the City, was published. After On the Road was published in 1957, he became the spokesperson for the "Beat Generation" and became one of the most controversial and famous writers of the 20th century. He also wrote works such as Dharma Bums, Underground Man, Lonely Traveler and Lonely Angel.
Kerouac died on October 21, 1969 in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of 47.
