6/8/2023 0 Comments On the road again jack kerouacThere really is no plot to ‘On the Road’. I suppose in a few years, Kerouac’s original scroll will be as popular a museum piece as the Dead Sea scrolls. Today Kerouac’s original scroll of “On the Road” is touring libraries throughout the United States so that people can go to see it for themselves. He put together a 120-foot scroll of paper for his typewriter, so he didn’t have to change sheets of paper. He had a unique method of writing the novel. Jack Kerouac wrote the first version of ‘On the Road’ in three weeks way back in 1951. Probably one of the reasons I had never read the book before was Truman Capote’s famous dismissal of ‘On the Road’, “That’s not writing, that’s typing.” Capote was put off by the spontaneity of the writing, the lack of planning or plot or editing or revision. I finally got around to reading “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac (1957) – 307 pages
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |