"You spend a whole life of non-interference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody bothers you and you cut along and make it your own way."
"What's your road, man?-holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.Where body how?"
quoted from "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, Seventh Printing, The Viking Press,INC.,1965.
About the Book
On the Road is about Sal Paradise and his friends. They travel maniacally across America and down to Mexico by cars, buses, hitch-hikings and their feet, in search for identity and meaning of life. This autobiographical work is not easy to read, for it was written as the stream of conciousness and the author was independent of formal grammar and even created his own vocabularies; be that as it may, it is readable, entertaining and homorous. This remarkable novel encouraged young people of beat generation (1950s and early 1960s) to question about the way of life in American society and even moved them to be on the road. It was the most important work of Kerouac and recognized as the hippies' bible.
About the Author
Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969)was the voice of the beat generation and considered as one of the most important American writer. His works are mostly about the searching of meaning of life and desire for escaping from ordinary way of society.
Other best known works
The Dharma Bums
Big Sur
The Town and the City
Visions of Cody
