Readers today may find these things repellent, George-Warren acknowledges, but it is only one aspect of the complicated and often contradictory author.Īs much as Kerouac benefited from his privilege, elsewhere he rails against it. Holly George-Warren, author of a forthcoming authorised Kerouac biography, says he depicted women as “objects of the male gaze and little else”, and drew from racist tropes in “romanticising the ‘other’” – for instance when Sal and Dean see freedom in the way that Mexican people live. Kerouac explored gender, sexuality, and queerness openly in his work during a time when to do so was very rare Holly George-Warren, Kerouac biographer Moreover, sixty-five years since publication, the misogyny of On the Road looks overt, even gleeful: Moriarty’s “awfully dumb” 16-year-old wife Marylou is instructed “to make breakfast and sweep the floor” within the first three pages. Kerouac himself was a white, university-educated man who returned from his travels to have his meals cooked and his washing done by his mother. His alter ego Sal Paradise may have been inspired by his time working on a farm in California, for example, but he always had the option of returning home, or of being sent money by his aunt.
To some, he is an aspirational iconoclast to others he is the face of white male privilege. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardianīut insofar as Kerouac is invoked as a symbol, his meaning is not uniformly understood. Picture of the back dust jacket flap for the first edition of On the Road.An enduring brand … Christian Dior’s Kerouac sweatshirt, on a catwalk printed with the first draft of On the Road. Picture of the first edition Viking boards for On the Road. Picture of the back dust jacket for the first edition of On the Road. Picture of dust jacket where original $3.95 price is found for On the Road. Picture of the first edition copyright page for On the Road. Picture of the 1957 first edition dust jacket for On the Road. Other Time 100 Novels include Lolita and A Death in the Family On the Road is one of Time Magazine's 100 Best Novels. Dust jacket says "ON THE ROAD $3.95" at the top of the inside front flap, and has blue and red bands at the top and bottom of the rear panel.
"ON THE ROAD" is printed in white on the front of the book. BY THE COLONIAL PRESS INC." is stated on the bottom of the copyright page. Pages: 310 "PUBLISHED IN 1957 BY THE VIKING PRESS, INC." is stated on the copyright page with no other references to subsequent printings.
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