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On the road

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On the road
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Jack Kerouac (Jean-Louis Lebry de Kerouac, 1922-1969) was a writer of the epoch, a writer-paradox, who sowed the wind and before he knew it he had reaped a storm that has not subsided in our times. Coming from an impoverished family of French aristocrats, he became the voice of protesting American youth and introduced young American intellectuals to Buddhism. Critics arrogantly ignored him; nonconformist readers carried him in their arms. From New York to San Francisco. From San Francisco to Los Angeles. Los Angeles to New Orleans. New Orleans? Forgotten are wives and girlfriends, home comfort and attempts to find success and a place in the official literary nomenclature. Thousands of roads lie America under the wheels of an old car. All new and new faces, fates and stories it appears before two crony friends - a young writer and a fiery "rebel without a cause". Such is the novel "On the Road", first published in 1957. It was shattered by the critics, but despite this, it became first a national and then an international bestseller. It rightly ranks among the most iconic books in the history of world literature, has been included in lists of the best works of the twentieth century by Time, Le Monde, the BBC and the Observer, and still sells huge numbers of copies. But most importantly, this book has been inspiring new generations of young men and women who refuse to live by the laws of boring and limited bourgeois morality for seven decades.
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