Jack Kerouac wrote fiction and autobiographical prose associated with the Beat generation, drawing on travel, friendship, jazz and restless movement across the United States. On the Road follows Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty through repeated cross-country journeys, nights in cities and encounters with people living outside settled routines. The Dharma Bums turns towards hiking, Buddhism and the friendship between Ray Smith and Japhy Ryder, while Big Sur presents a darker account of exhaustion and isolation after literary fame. Kerouac's prose often aims for the speed and improvisation of spoken language or jazz, with long flowing sentences and loose episodic structures. On the Road is the defining entry point for Kerouac's travel-driven Beat fiction, while Big Sur presents a more exhausted and self-critical version of the same autobiographical persona. Read more Less
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