On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
About This Novel
As the spiritual autobiography of the soul of the "Beat Generation", "On the Road" is known as the manifesto of the "Beat Generation" literary movement. It is also a spiritual confession of the young generation against the shackles of the world. It has caused a sensation in the United States since the 1960s and is still a spiritual reading for young people around the world. It is also a timeless American literary classic. In pursuit of individuality, the protagonist of the novel drives across the North American continent with several young men and women. Along the way, they caroused, talked about Eastern Zen Buddhism, and pursued the pure experience of life. In the process of traveling back and forth on the highways between the east and west coasts in pursuit of dreams, young lives are like meteors that burn out quickly, falling until they are separated, but the soul is always yearning for wandering, wandering and distant roads. This translation uses Kerouac's first draft published by Penguin in 2008. Compared with the heavily edited official version, it appears rougher, wilder and more vigorous, and more movingly restores the more authentic inner world of the soul writer of the "Beat Generation".
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