Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make "On the Road" an inspirational work of lasting importance.
Chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West."
On the Road, Jack Kerouac's whirling, swirling celebration of the generation we call Beat, was first published in 1957, by The Viking Press in the States, and André Deutsch in the UK. To celebrate its fiftieth birthday, we're publishing the unexpurgated scroll for the first time, in a beautiful hardback edition that is absolutely exquisite. Legend has it that Kerouac wrote the novel in a fury of movement: fuelled by caffeine and cigarettes, he typed this magisterial work on a series of pieces of paper, taped together to make a rudimentary `scroll', flowing down the page, unstoppable, rather like the energetic road trip he and his friend, Neal Cassady, took across America, and that he documents in the novel.
For the first time, you can finally read exactly what Kerouac wrote - the edition we all know and love was strongly edited, to excise the more racy bits that were deemed to be too strong meat for the `50s crowd. References to sex and drugs - though not entirely expunged - were toned down and tempered. The text was chopped up into neat paragraphs, to be easy on the eye. But now you can read the full, out-of-breath paean to the heady joys of living with the wind in your hair and only a dollar in your pocket.
In the New York Times, Luc Sante writes that `The novel that "On the Road" became was inarguably the book that young people needed in 1957, but the sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version for our time.' Too right. If you haven't read the scroll yet, I envy you hugely.
在美国文坛,杰克·凯鲁亚克是一位颇受争议又备受关注的作家,他是“垮掉的一代”的代表人物,他大学二年级退学从事文学创作,曾在美国海军服役,却被以精神病为由除名。 他周游世界,混迹于社会底层,厨房帮工、加油站服务员、水手、撰稿人、铁路司闸员、行李搬运工、采棉工、...
评分40年前的10月21日,杰克·凯鲁亚克死了。 他死于长年的酗酒,无法遏制的内出血杀死了“垮掉的一代”最伟大的作家。凯鲁亚克的第三任妻子斯特拉跟他在一起,但是她只能眼睁睁看着丈夫整夜吐血不止,束手无策。当他被送到佛罗里达州的圣·彼德斯堡医院时,医生也无计可...
评分(文楚安全译本、漓江出版社2001 翻译得蛮好,至少看起来比台湾版舒服。但其中一些爵士乐手与国内已基本统一下来的见于各音乐期刊及碟片海报上的名字略有出入,不利于按人索碟。统计如下: 1、 P15,查理士.帕克 ,别名“非凡人物”:即CHARLIE PARKER,通译...
评分特别说明的是,两颗星的评价是针对文教授的中文译本而言的。 《On the Road》我先看了英文版的,再去翻文楚安的翻译版。我不能说文教授水平不高,实际上他很费力的把很多俚语都找到了中文对应。但我还要说这本书的中文译本和英文原著完全是两本顶着同一个名字的不同的书。 ...
评分这个世界上有些书你知道你早晚会去读,《在路上》对于我来说属于这种。很多年前看两三行介绍,就知道你终究有一天会去找来读的书,就像和一个人对视两秒,就知道你们是否能心灵相通一样,要是从心理上掰碎了细嚼,也未必分析不出道理一二来,不过,那全无意义。 是的,全无意...
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
评分Reading this book has been an ordeal for me and I finally failed to understand 或许我不该试图在这38人读过/0人给3星以下的书底下觊觎一席之地的 那就 不打分以示尊敬吧
评分Reading this book has been an ordeal for me and I finally failed to understand 或许我不该试图在这38人读过/0人给3星以下的书底下觊觎一席之地的 那就 不打分以示尊敬吧
评分自由的叙事方式和不羁的精神内核成就了这样一篇不朽之作。
评分梦中惊醒于是我起来读完了它并且这次几乎屡顺了。现在是心宽天地阔,思绪在午夜狂奔奔奔......On the road, running to stand still. 好久没有这么high了
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