Classic Books Podcast 004: FBI Tracked This Binge-Written Novel | On The Road
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Загружено: 2025-11-29
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🎙️ On The Road: The Book That Started A Revolution
In 1957, in the heart of the Eisenhower era's conformity, a literary bombshell exploded. It was a novel typed in one continuous, breathless paragraph over three weeks on a 120-foot scroll, fueled by benzedrine and coffee. Critics called it dangerous; parents tried to ban it; and the FBI put its author under surveillance.
This is the story of On the Road, Jack Kerouac's masterpiece, and the man who inspired it: Dean Moriarty, a manic, charismatic anti-hero who lived entirely for the moment. The novel rips the lid off the conventional American dream, chronicling a frantic, spiritual quest across the country’s highways, through a world of jazz clubs, late-night conversations about God, and wild, relentless motion.
It is a tale of young men rejecting stability, chasing authentic experience, and seeking meaning in the frantic rhythm of the American landscape. They are driven by a need for freedom so intense it risks destroying them. Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness prose captures the exhilarating, manic energy of youth, convinced that the answer to life's questions lies just around the next bend.
Discover the book that became the unofficial bible of youth rebellion and inspired a generation to drop out, tune in, and hit the road in search of "the holy goof." It’s a road trip that changed American literature forever.
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