死氣沉沉的人生，再見！
我要離開這個鳥地方，把生命丟到路上流浪！
一部傳奇經典，一種新世代之聲，一本反抗文化的聖經
二次大戰後，最激動人心的文學流派「垮掉的一代」代表作
西方旅行文學和背包客文化的聖杯、公路電影的原型
《TIME》百大最佳英文小說（1923 ~2005年）、美國圖書館廿世紀世界百大小說，知名譯者何穎怡全新翻譯；名導演華特．沙勒斯改拍的同名電影即將問世
薩爾是位對文學、爵士樂和女人充滿好奇的年輕作家，他在紐約有一群瘋狂的波希米亞好友，成天談論文藝創作，直到富於熱情與野性的狄恩加入這個圈子，薩爾的生活也面臨轉變契機：他決定追隨狄恩「在路上」的步伐，實現西部之旅的夢想，開啟通往體驗生命以及無限可能的那扇大門。
全書以薩爾第一人稱描述，他與狄恩等人四度驅車橫跨美國大陸，展開一段段混亂而亢奮的旅程。他們漫無目的奔走，在路上體察流浪漢、農民、工人、少數族裔的生活，同時縱情於爵士樂、性愛與藥物，尋找另一種感官境界；在放蕩不安的生活基調之中，他們盡情地燃燒自我與探索世界，獲得絕對的靈魂自由。
這是一部自傳體小說。1951年，將近卅歲的凱魯亞克花了短短三星期時間，不眠不休地把自己七年來與友人在公路上浪蕩的故事化為文字。凱魯亞克極力在語言上實驗「自發性文體」；為了避免打斷寫作的思緒，凱魯亞克刻意在書寫時不做隔行、沒有分段，最後成品是一幅長達三十六點五公尺的捲軸。
這部作品寫成後屢遭出版社退稿，凱魯亞克自己修改過多達六種版本之後，才終於在1957年正式出版。這本小說被譽為定義了「垮掉的一代」，凱魯亞克也成了新世代的精神教主，鼓舞著無數年輕人循著他的足跡去找尋人生真義。
同名電影由《中央車站》、《革命前夕的摩托車之旅》名導演華特．沙勒斯執導、劇作家Jose Rivera改編，已在2010年底殺青。演員包括Sam Riley、Garrett Hedlund、Viggo Mortensen、Kirsten Dunst 和Kirsten Stewart。

一部伟大的成长小说，《在路上》序幕之作
这是我的全部，到达了文字所能到达的最远的地方。
——杰克•凯鲁亚克
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凯鲁亚克第一部重要的作品，历经数年完成。对亡父的悼念，写一部美国伟大小说的决心，令他提笔描述自己的青少年时光。小说以传统手法写成，与作者以后的“自动散文”风格形成鲜明对比。
“镇”指的是加洛韦，主角彼得出生和成长的地方，在这里，他通过橄榄球证明自己。“城”代表1940年代的纽约，早期“垮掉的一代”圈子。彼得从小镇走向城市，在成长的痛苦和困惑中，发现自己人生的方向：在路上。
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凯鲁亚克初登文坛时，带来了一股新鲜的空气。他代表了一个悲剧，一种力量、胜利和持续的影响力，这种影响至今犹存。
——诺曼•梅勒
他书写的是任由生活自由前行的小说。视野之深广，常常是他的制胜法宝。
——《纽约时报书评》
描绘了艺术家的重生，引人入胜。
——《洛杉矶时报》

Reprint edition of Robert Frank: The Americans, Scalo Publishers 1998.
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"[An] essential Beat masterpiece." -- The Village Voice .
Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process of creation of the two most celebrated members of the Beat Generation, but also the unfolding of a remarkable friendship of immense pathos and spiritual depth. Through this exhilarating exchange of letters, two-thirds of which have never been published before, Kerouac and Ginsberg emerge first and foremost as writers of artistic passion, innovation, and genius. Vivid and enthralling, the letters, which date from their first meeting in 1944 to Kerouac's untimely death in 1969, chronicle the endless struggle, anguish, and sacrifice involved in giving form to their literary visions.

Publié dans l'indifférence en 1958, ce livre est devenu un classique. Jugé triste ou pervers, voire subversif, par la presse américaine d' alors, son importance n'a pourtant cessé de croître au fil des années. Car les photographes, les critiques et le grand public ont salué en Robert Frank un véritable novateur. Ce livre n'a rien d'un reportage. Il ne raconte pas le périple d'un homme à travers les Etats-Unis. Il rassemble une suite de notes prises sur le vif par un écorché vif.

Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time after Jack Kerouac's best-known works, following a visit to northern California and the first feelings of midlife crisis. Kerouac stayed for several weeks in a cabin in Big Sur, California, and with friends in San Francisco. Upon returning home, he wrote this account in a two-week period. Critic Richard Meltzer referred to Big Sur as Kerouac's 'masterpiece, and one of the great, great works of the English language.'

在线阅读本书
Jack Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "Beat" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago.
Introduction by Ann Charters

MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independ ent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after
put the Beat Generation on the map,
is sparked by Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life.

'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' - Kerouac on "The Town and the City". Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Inspired by grief over his father's death and gripped by determination to write the Great American Novel, he draws largely on his own New England childhood.

Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the "beat generation." His eighteen internationally acclaimed books -- including "On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans, " and "Lonesome Traveler" -- were important signpost in a new American literature. Here, in "Mexico City Blues, " his only collection of poetry, his voice is as distinctive as in his prose; it roams widely across continents and cultures in a restless search for meaning and expression, giving the verse the unique qualities found in America's most distinctive contribution to music.

Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature

First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans--mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer--whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras.

In his introduction to this small volume of poems, Kerouac indicates that it was his first book of poems written in 1954 in the form of blues choruses. He writes "...in these blues as in jazz, the form is determined by time, and by the musician's spontaneous phrasing & harmonizing with the beat of the time as it waves & waves on by in measured choruses." Indeed, the poems are divided into 80 one-page choruses and are quick snapshot-reflections on various details around the poet's everyday living, thinking, imagining, and walking in San Francisco. Some younger people may not readily understand the abstract "hipster" poetry, but it is obviously a great example of the great visionary poety and writings of Kerouac's world and time. It's a quick read and the reader's appreciation will grow with re-readings.

In its time Jack Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg's Howl. While it stunned the public and literary establishment when it was published in 1957, it is now recognized as an American classic. With On the Road, Kerouac discovered his voice and his true subject--the search for a place as an outsider in America. On the Road swings to the rhythms of fifties underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns, and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. "Life is great, and few can put the zest and wonder and sadness and humor of it on paper more interestingly than Kerouac."
--Luther Nichols, San Francisco Examiner "Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, The Sun Also Rises came to be regarded as the testament of the Lost Generation, so it seems certain that On the Road will come to be known as that of the Beat Generation."
--Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times
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Based on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico City, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight.

"This entire short novel Tristessa's a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, & pads at dawn in Mexico City slums." —Allen Ginsberg

Based on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico City, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control

The first collection of letters between the two leading figures of the Beat movement
Writers and cultural icons Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated names of the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared artistic sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friend­ship, one that colored their lives and greatly influenced their writing. Editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford shed new light on this intimate and influential friendship in this fascinating exchange of letters between Kerouac and Ginsberg, two thirds of which have never been published before. Commencing in 1944 while Ginsberg was a student at Columbia University and continuing until shortly before Kerouac's death in 1969, the two hundred letters included in this book provide astonishing insight into their lives and their writing. While not always in agreement, Ginsberg and Kerouac inspired each other spiritually and creatively, and their letters became a vital workshop for their art. Vivid, engaging, and enthralling, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters provides an unparalleled portrait of the two men who led the cultural and artistic movement that defined their generation.