by Jack Kerouac · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141182674
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«On the Road» is the novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The novel follows Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty on their road trips across the United States of the 1950s, in a quest for freedom and fulfillment marked by jazz, friendship and the underground culture of the Beat Generation. The story, autobiographical in inspiration, captures the energy of postwar America.
The novel was originally published in 1957. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Charters.
Key work of the Beat Generation, intended for readers of twentieth-century American literature and road stories.
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
