The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published as
Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951,
Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"atyped as a
single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper,
which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major
literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007,
this is the uncut version of an American classicarougher, wilder,
and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily
edited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creative
history, represents the first full expression of Kerouacas
revolutionary aesthetic.
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作者:美国杰克·凯鲁亚克Jack kerouac
杰克·凯鲁亚克(Jack
kerouac),一九二二年三月十二日,凯鲁亚克出生于马萨诸塞州洛厄尔,父母为法裔美国人,他是家中幼子。他曾在当地天主教和公立学校就读,以橄榄球奖学金入纽约哥伦比亚大学,结识爱伦·金斯堡、威廉·巴勒斯和尼尔·卡萨迪等“垮掉的一代”。
凯鲁亚克大学二年级退学从事文学创作,并辗转于美国海军和商用航运公司等处。一九五○年,第一部小说《乡镇和城市》出版。一九五七年的《在路上》问世后,他成为“垮掉的一代”的代言人,跻身二十世纪最有争议的著名作家行列。他还著有《达摩流浪者》、《地下人》、《孤独的旅人》和《孤独天使》等作品。一九六九年十月二十一日,凯鲁亚克在佛罗里达圣彼得堡去世,享年四十七岁。
Jack Kerouac1922-1969, 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.