Important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named Hailed it as 'the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most When the book was originally released, The New York Times After several film proposals dating from 1957, the book was finally made into a film, On the Road (2012), produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Walter Salles. The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formedĭuring the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on aĬontinuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise. The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures in the Beat movement, such as William S.
Generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of A novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States, it is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture
