On the road to escape alienation (On the Road - Jack Kerouac)

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Product:	On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Date:	30.03.08 (50 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very well written

Disadvantages: Dean is morally not acceptable as a character

Jack Kerouac was born to an Indian father and an American mother and wrote this book in the early fifties.

The novel is divided in 3 parts, and begins in 1947 and finishes in 1949. Sal Paradise is the main character and the book is written from his point of view. He is the son of Italian inmigrants and lives in New York with his aunt. His friends are what it would soon be called "beat generation", they do not care about a job and live to enjoy life.

The alter ego, and the sole real friend of Sal is Dean.

The style of the book is fast (and today we may even say furious) There is a great love for life and absolutely no planning in the life of these people, apart from the required planning of their trips up and down, East to West in USA.

It is a great book because it is so alive! You may or not agree on a moral level with these people, and particularly Dean, is the kind of person who everyone in the end dislikes, and yes, he is a con, and even his family will cut ties with him, but the alienation fo that generation, which would eventually give us the revolution of the 1968 was there and Jack Kerouac captured it perfectly well.

Summary: I love this book