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Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation

The Beatnik movement began in San Francisco in the 1950s and then spread to New York. Its founders were Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. By the early 1960s, the romantic anarchism celebrated by the Beatniks had become the new aesthetics. It developed into the hippy movements. The Beat Generation

Born into a French-Canadian family. He went to Columbia University, but then enlisted with the Merchant Marine. Back in New York, he started to live a Bohemian life. When he became famous, he started to drink heavily and to isolate himself from the people. He died alone at the age of 47 in San Francisco. Jack Kerouac ( )

On the Road (1957), his famous Beat novel The Subterraneans (1958) The Dharma Bums (1958) Big Sur (1962) His Works

The living symbol of the Beat Generation BEAT The spontaneous The beatitude of beat of jazz oriental mysticism ‘Beat’ writing and the unconventional life associated with it became the symbol of a generation that refused conventional social values and wanted to express its dissatisfaction by deviating from the accepted norm. Kerouac and the Beat Generation

A sort of romantic anarchism; Instinct and spontaneity; Friendship and the love of nature; With an open-style sort of prose. His novels expressed:

A journey through America. A celebration of the unconventional lifestyle of the Beat Generation. Kerouac experiments with new, freer forms of writing: the spontaneous, colloquial forms he found in his travel-mate Neal Cassady’s letters. The result was not much appreciated by publishers. The novel was published seven years after it was written. On the Road

It is narrated by Sal Paradise, a young would-be novelist. A college friend has invited him to live with him in San Francisco. Sal wants to visit Denver, the home of another of his friends, Dean Moriarty. Sal makes four trips across America. He finally goes back to New York, but the end of the novel remains ambiguous. The Story

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