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“Where are we going, man?” “I don’t know but we gotta go.” Jack Kerouac ( ) Jack Kerouac

Born in Lowel, Massachusetts in Educated at Columbia University. At the end of WWII, he began travelling across the States. 1. Life Jack Kerouac Only Connect... New Directions Jack Kerouac.

In New York he met the intellectual Neal Cassidy, the poet Allen Ginsberg and the novelist William Borroughs. After his hitch-hiking across America with Cassidy, he wrote the novel On The Road (1957). Jack Kerouac Only Connect... New Directions Jack Kerouac. 1. Life

Frightened by his popularity, he became more and more addicted to alcohol. His novel Big Sur (1962) contains an account of the disintegration of all his hopes. He died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven. Jack Kerouac Only Connect... New Directions Jack Kerouac. 1. Life

Invented by Kerouac in Introduced to the public by an article on “New York Times Magazine”. Beat = 1. tired  reaction against capitalism and Puritan middle-class values. 2. beatific  Kerouac’s reverence for certain aspects of Catholicism and Buddhism. Jack Kerouac 2. The term “Beat Generation” A beatnik rock’n’roll compilation Only Connect... New Directions

Suffix -nik borrowed from Sputnik, a Russian satellite. Their main features: illegal way of life, acting on first impulses. They advocated escapism and created underground culture. Jack Kerouac 3. The beatniks... Only Connect... New Directions A group of Beatniks, 1950s.

Spiritual and sexual liberation. Liberation from censorship. Decriminalization of the use of marijuana. The evolution of rhythm and blues into rock and roll. Jack Kerouac 4....and their influence upon artistic movements The Hip, a 1986 book about the Beat Generation Only Connect... New Directions

The spread of ecological consciousness. Attention to a “second religiousness”. Respect for land and indigenous peoples and creatures  “The Earth is an Indian thing”. Jack Kerouac The Hip, a 1986 book about the Beat Generation Only Connect... New Directions 4....and their influence upon artistic movements

“Because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, (..) the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars” Jack Kerouac 5. On the Road Only Connect... New Directions A contemporary edition of On the Road.

Story of a friendship. Diary-like account of Kerouac’s wanderings across North America. It lacks a central plot  episodic structure. Theme of the journey  an escape from the town and from one’s own past. Jack Kerouac 6. On the Road: structure Only Connect... New Directions A contemporary edition of On the Road.

Jack Kerouac Sal (the narrator) stands for Kerouac himself. Dean stands for Kerouac’s friend Neal Cassidy. Sal and Dean are linked to the same restlessness. They keep on moving without a fixed goal. Only Connect... New Directions A contemporary edition of On the Road. 6. On the Road: structure

A fictionalised Neal Cassidy. He lives for “kicks”  moments of intense experience and pleasure. He is the symbol of the attempt to live every moment with intensity. “Ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being” Jack Kerouac 7. On the Road: Dean Moriarty, the protagonist Neil Cassidy and Jack Kerouac Only Connect... New Directions

Spontaneous and episodic. Natural explosion of feelings and thoughts. Unsophisticated language, defined “hip talk”. Vital, authentic, alive and individual language. Opposite to conventional language. Break with the impersonality of the artist. Jack Kerouac 8. On the Road: style and language Only Connect... New Directions