内容简介
OntheRoadswingstotherhythmsof1950sundergroundAmerica,jazz,sex,generosity,chilldawnsanddrugs,withSalParadiseandhisheroDeanMoriarty,travellerandmystic,thelivingepitomeofBeat.Nowrecognizedasamodernclassic,itsAmericanDreamisnearerthatofWaltWhitmanthanScottFitzgerald,anditgoesracingtowardsthesunsetwithunforgettableexuberance,poignancyandautobiographicalpassion.
作者简介
JackKerouac(1922–1969)wasanAmericannovelist,poet,artistandpartoftheBeatGeneration.MostofhislifewasspentinthevastlandscapesofAmericaorlivingwithhismother,withwhomhespentmostofhislife.Kerouac'sbestknownworksareOntheRoadandTheDharmaBums.AnnCharters,professorofEnglishattheUniversityofConnecticut,hasbeeninterestedinBeatwriterssince1956,whenasanundergraduateEnglishmajorsheattendedtherepeatperformanceoftheSixGallerypoetryreadinginBerkeleywhereAllenGinsberggavehissencondpublicreadingofHowl.AfterhisdeathshewrotethefirstKerouacbiographyandeditedhisposthumouscollection,ScatteredPoems.Shewasthegeneraleditorofthetwo-volumeencyclopaediaTheBeats:LiteraryBohemiansInPostwarAmericaandhaspublishedacollectionofherphotographicportraitsofwell-knownwritersinthebookBeats&Company.
