Douglas (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dougiebear) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} 50bookchallenge,@ 2008-12-03 21:22:00 |
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Book #38 for 2008
#38 - On the Road by Jack Kerouac
GENRE OF WORK: Beat Literature (Novel)
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1957
***1/2
Description
"On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture."
- Amazon.com
Review
Kerouac takes the stylistic elements of Miller's Tropic of Cancer and uses them to write a road atlas love story. The nameless man's love for the land, Sal Paradise's love for Dean Moriarity. These two themes cycle over and over like a droning washing machine. A slightly tiresome but often beautiful testament to the majesty of the American landscape and its inhabitants.
BOOKS: 38/50
PAGES: 8778
#38 - On the Road by Jack Kerouac
GENRE OF WORK: Beat Literature (Novel)
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1957
***1/2
Description
"On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture."
- Amazon.com
Review
Kerouac takes the stylistic elements of Miller's Tropic of Cancer and uses them to write a road atlas love story. The nameless man's love for the land, Sal Paradise's love for Dean Moriarity. These two themes cycle over and over like a droning washing machine. A slightly tiresome but often beautiful testament to the majesty of the American landscape and its inhabitants.
BOOKS: 38/50
PAGES: 8778
