by Jack Kerouac · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070367665
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«Sur la route» is the road novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Gallimard in paperback (436 pages, in French).
The narrative follows the road trips of the young narrator and his friend Dean Moriarty across the United States and Mexico, in a quest for intense experiences marked by jazz, poetry and freedom. Kerouac's spontaneous prose portrays the energy and rootlessness of a generation in postwar America.
This edition is number 766 in the Folio collection, with complete text, translation by Jacques Houbart and preface by Michel Mohrt. The work originally appeared in 1957 as «On the Road».
For readers interested in travel literature and the classics of the Beat Generation.
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
