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On the Road - Jack Kerouac / Jack London / Biography - Yves Buin / Essay - Victor-Lévy Beaulieu (VLB)

Read and reread On the Road Jack Kerouac of , and offer it. Why? Because ... book is a legendary, mythical, because it is one of the 49 American novels of the "ideal library" by Bernard Pivot (Albin Michel, 1988) who wrote: "Pound the Beat generation flagship embodied by Dean Moriarty , a brother of James Dean. Stolen cars, bad boys who did a pact of friendship, and Route 220 at the time. "Heavens! I stop here because I am concerned that Santa's reindeer-intelligent creatures, if he is rushing into the beautiful legs that to me!

Read and reread On the Road Jack Kerouac of , and offer it. Why? Because it is an excellent novel, a unique reminder of a true writer, who has an incomparable work to his credit. I know what I mean: in 2009, I devoted many articles to S ur road and J ack Kerouac on my blog Siamese Livranaute .

The story begins with Jack London.

In 1907, Jack London publishes The Road . It is the story of the adventures and wanderings of Jack-the-sailor-double of the author, inspired account of true facts. Indeed, in May 1893, an "industrial army" or a group of thousands of unemployed and has left behind face a severe economic crisis, march on Washington. Commissioned by the "General" Kelly, this "army" wants to force the government to build roads across the country. Penniless, unemployed rise, illegally, in wagons goods; they are called the "hard burners. Among them, Jack London, who had the idea of holding a logbook, a novel is published under the title of the book hiked (Tallandier Editions, 2007).

However, he left the group shortly afterward to wander unemployed, and live a life of "hobo" until his arrest in Niagara Falls in June 1884, and its hard living in a jail in Buffalo. Based on his diary, experiences and wanderings, Jack London, the "burner drive," wrote The Road thirteen years later (1907)-and the French translation began a hundred years for us so, decidedly "It's a Long Way to Tipperary ...».

Jack London had thus come into literature and opt for socialism. The wind of freedom, love of hitting the road, the sensitivity to poverty and social injustice which is marked On the Road mark the spirits and inspire youth claimant, and ... Jack Kerouac.

Jack Kerouac

Fifty years after The Road, then in 1957, Jack Kerouac published On the Road, written between 1948-1956. The title itself is a tribute to his predecessor, the Pioneer Route. " It will adopt the same name, Jack. His real name is Jean-Louis for his mother, toward whom he will always come back, he is and will remain "Ti-Jean". His name is Kerouac, with acute accent ...

Jack London had written a notebook that has served for The Road, it is with this first novel he began his literary career, he Writer discovered. A prolific career! Jack Kerouac, meanwhile, had already published a novel in 1950, The Town and the City Road-Before-acclaimed. His career was then initiated, and he always knew, so to speak, he would be a writer.

The "army" of unemployed and have-consider the "General" Kelly, who joined London, claimed the roads ... and work.

Kerouac himself, wandered on American roads including the mythical 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles is moving to hitchhike, but also boarding freight cars as London.

Times have changed, but the youth still in love with freedom, and the desire to take off. Registered in the U.S. even die, the two are Jack vagrants, marginal "tramp" and "bums." Both tell of their wanderings, their friendships and encounters, their emotions and thoughts.

London staged Jack-the-Sailor, the duplicate, and Kerouac, Dean Moriary, none other than Neal Cassidy, and Sal Paradise, his double. The content of one is rather "soft", and that of the other is rather "hard"-especially, needless to say, the original, unfiltered. London written in slang, in a spoken style, spontaneous, familiar, while Kerouac recounts romance in a tempo jazz, defeating the measure in personal style. This beat will resonate in the ear and the heart of the postwar generation.

The Road will affect millions of readers. This is a major work of American literature, unequaled originality. It will mark a generation called the "Beat Generation". It will inspire all young people who take the road, the book under his arm, but too late ... Gone are the days!

In brief. At 50 years apart, Jack London and Jack Kerouac: both took to the road and toured the United States of America, depending on meetings and means of travel. Without the two-penny-hungry discovery. Both, storytellers and characters from their own adventures, not to say they "lived." At the time of Jack London, it claimed the roads to that of Jack Kerouac, they drove on the roads.

Today. U.S. 66, U.S. Route 66, Main Street of America, Main Street USA, The Mother Road, the first paved transcontinental highway in America, no longer exists or very little, having been decommissioned in 1985. it goes without saying that the famous U.S. Route 66 canned and stored, its mythical character. Moreover, groups multiply initiatives to preserve what remains of the Historic Route 66.

Read and reread On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and the offer. But to what edition? The latest shows the original version, entitled "On the road: the original roll, Gallimard, 2010. But what

roll?? He is a legend ...

"Legend has it that Kerouac is to be doped Benzedrine to write on the road, he has composed in three weeks on a long roll of teletype paper, without punctuation. He took to the keyboard, with the bop on the radio, and he spat his text, full of anecdotes taken from life, word for word. The subject: the road with Dean, his buddy of insane, jazz, alcohol, girls, drugs, freedom ... [...]», read on France Culture.

For my part, I recommend three books:

[] On the Road, Jack Kerouac. Full text with notes and a dossier, published by Folio addition, No. 31, 540 pages. You like the "hard"? There a. .. That the protagonists are nicknames, no changes little, they are much

identified by the publisher. It's a secret Punchinello!

[] Kerouac by Yves Buin, in Folio biographies. No pages 17.354. A biography recognized, very interesting and eye écrite.Clin Daniel Caux. " For me count only those who are mad about something, mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, those who want while at the same time, those who never yawn, that does not tell of banalities, but burn, burn, burn like a firework. , "said the Jazz Poet. According to Yves Buin, his biographer, Jack Kerouac has formalized the breath jazzy, saxophone and inspired phrasing of paroxysmal "wild type" in some principles of spontaneous prose. Writer psychiatrist, poet and jazz lover, Yves Buin worked at Hot Jazz in the late 60's [...]», read on France Culture.

[] Jack Kerouac, Complete Works, Volume 10, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu (VLB), an essay of 194 pages. It is a beautiful book printed on quality paper cream, generously illustrated. This book is a must to know Jack Kerouac and his work: inseparable. During the tournament to capture the root cause and scope of On the road, and the place it occupies in his work. Essential to understand the world of Jack Kerouac, whose books can not, in my opinion, be read in part. "Jack Kerouac by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu ... but Victor-Lévy Beaulieu by Jack Kerouac ... This attempt to reconstruct a life of a work, a fate can be considered a novel way to what will have been perhaps the word tomorrow. "Claude Mauriac, Le Monde, 1973.

Provide Folio ... you hesitate. Then choose the original version, accompanied by the test VLB. A blessed gift that the person will not soon forget, if not ever - because it Never say never ...

Cover designed by Jack Kerouac

Go, I embrace you. See you soon!