Every book can be summarized in 6 paragraphs….
- Editorial Anagram. Edition 2016
- Author: Jack Kerouac
- Book for interested in: U.S., Beat generation, years after World War II, Costa to Coast, custom, Travel.
- What will? Kerouac, that uses the name of salt paradise in the work, decides to cross the country with hardly any means, From New York to California, on several occasions. Each trip offers a portrait of a society that far from the triumph of World War II seems to fight for a survival in an asphalt jungle. The "American Dream" passed through the tapestry of low funds make up this surprising story away from triumphalism of Hollywood films.
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“There were a few fucking field houses of various types and sizes nimbadas by the gray diffuse of dawn. Then Omaha and, Oh my God! I saw the first cowboy ".
Sal Paradise (Kerouac) He is a writer on the east coast, settled in New York, who decides to cross the country from coast to coast. There is a very interesting part of that story in which at the end of the years 40 This rupture in two of the United States is observed. A very current topic now that Kerouac makes a masterful portrait in the work. THE URBANITA THAT IS SURPRISED FROM SEE VACAS, cowboys, Farms, Infinite fields…
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Terry drank a lot, almost as much or more than me, and spoke non -stop until midnight. We did not move from those holes. Occasionally vagrants passed, Mexican mothers with their children also passed, And the Pasma patrol car also came to watch, And a policeman got out to take a look; But most of the time we were alone and joined our souls more and more until it would have been terribly hard to tell us by goodbye.
The book is a vaodevil of characters that have a common feature: They are survivors. Maleantes, Golfos, abnegated mothers, Farrado parents, Women in search of fortune, immigrants, unemployment writers ... "On the way" it is a raw portrait of a society that sixty years ago, mysteriously, It seems to have many characteristics of the caraded American middle class today.
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We wandered through close romantic streets carrying our bush luggage. Everyone looked like extra film in the last. Aged Starlets, disenchanted bonds, car runners, Pathetic Characters from California with the sadness-continent sadness, handsome, Decadent Casanovas, Blondes with swollen eyes, cool, macarras, whores, masseuses, buttons.
That is the description that Kerouac of San Francisco makes in 1949. The great merit of this book is once again its absolute news again.
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We collected our luggage. Dean wore his trunk with a healthy arm and me the rest, And we get staggering at the tram stop. A moment later we were downhill, with the legs hanging next to the sidewalk, Sitting on the thrilling platform. We were two defeated heroes of the western night.
The magnificent last sentence framed this work. They are defeated heroes because that is the duality of this text, of this country, Of those two coasts, Of those two worlds in which people like Dean and Saul live unable to adapt to economic rules, social and moral of society. To do it would be to accept the same defeat in which they already live, But renouncing to be heroes. And that is the limit that they are not willing to exceed.
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They went to a parking lot, They parked next to a brick wall from the back (Dean had worked there on some occasion), and there, he said, They did what they thought of daylight; And not just that, He convinced her to follow us east as soon as she charged her Friday's salary.
Another of the revelations of the book is the world of drugs and sex. The general idea is that in the years 40 and 50 The Puritana American Society lived outside drugs and sexual relations before or outside marriage. "On the way" is full of moments that disassemble that idea. Explicit language is not used, But occasional sex is in the whole story. In cities like Denver, A kind of crossroads on the East West route and vice versa, The protagonists live crazy nights of excesses.
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Our battered luggage was piled up on the sidewalk; We still had a long way. But we didn't care: The road is life.
On the way they have great virtue. It is a travel book that when you finish it leaves you with an uncontrollable desire to travel..
| Style | 8,00/10 |
| Content | 9,20/10 |
| Valoración | 8,60/10 |
