000			02832nam a2200289u 4500
005			20190501163804.0
007			ta
008			080206s2007 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2007924522
020			_a9781598530124 (alk. paper)
040			_aDLC _cDLC
100	1		_aKerouac, Jack, _d1922-1969.
245	1	0	_aRoad novels 1957-1960 : _bJournal Selections _cJack Kerouac.
246	1	0	_aOn the road
246			_aThe Dharma bums
246			_aThe Subterraneans
246			_aTristessa
246			_aLonesome Traveler
260			_aNew York, NY : _bLibrary of America, _cc2007.
300			_a864 p. ; _c21 cm.
440		4	_aThe Library of America ; _v174
505	0	0	_tOn the road -- _tThe Dharma bums -- _tThe subterraneans -- _tTristessa -- _tLonesome traveler -- _tFrom the journals 1949-1954.
520			_aThe raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the Road instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, "the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.'" Written in the mode of ecstatic improvisation that Allen Ginsberg described as "spontaneous bop prosody," Kerouac's novel remains electrifying in its thirst for experience and its defiant rebuke of American conformity. In his portrayal of the fervent relationship between the writer Sal Paradise and his outrageous, exasperating, and inimitable friend Dean Moriarty, Kerouac created one of the great friendships in American literature; and his rendering of the cities and highways and wildernesses that his characters restlessly explore are a hallucinatory travelogue of a nation he both mourns and celebrates. Now, The Library of America collects On the Road together with four other autobiographical "road books" published during a remarkable four-year period. The Dharma Bums (1958), at once an exploration of Buddhist spirituality and an account of the Bay Area poetry scene, is notable for its thinly veiled portraits of Kerouac's acquaintances, including Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Kenneth Rexroth. The Subterraneans (1958) recounts a love affair set amid the bars and bohemian haunts of San Francisco. Tristessa (1960) is a melancholy novella describing a relationship with a prostitute in Mexico City. Lonesome Traveler (1960) collects travel essays that evoke journeys in Mexico and Europe, and concludes with an elegiac lament for the lost world of the American hobo. Also included in Road Novels are selections from Kerouac's journal, which provide a fascinating perspective on his early impressions of material eventually incorporated into On the Road.
650		0	_aBeat generation _vFiction.
655		7	_aAutobiographical fiction. _2gsafd
961	w	l	_t2
999			_c1443 _d1443