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He composed his masterwork, On The Road, in a 20. So who was Jack Kerouac Catholic turned Buddhist, US Marine turned Beatnik, sports jock turned lush, the author of The Dharma Bums was a bundle of unresolved tensions. His works are believed to be of autobiographical nature, reflecting warm but stormy relationships and a deep social disillusionment assuaged by drugs, alcohol, mysticism, and biting humor. The man who inspired a generation of beatniks and dropouts, ee profile a self-destructive but mesmerising talent.
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It possessed a strange energy that shocked more established writers but only brought Kerouac well-deserved recognitionĪfter the success of this work Kerouac produced a series of similar novels, including The Dharma Bums and The Subterraneans (both 1958), Doctor Sax (1959), Lonesome Traveler (1960), and Big Sur (1962). This new writing was spontaneous and seemed to be at times unedited. This book was written in less than three weeks and demonstrated a fresh style. After studying briefly at Columbia University, he achieved fame with his spontaneous and unconventional prose, particularly the novel, On the Road (1957). His first book was published in 1950 and titled, The Town and the City. This lifestyle gave him inspiration for his later novels. Soon after, he became a merchant seaman and then decided on the life of a vagabond.
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He joined the Navy where he was soon discharged due to being diagnosed as a schizoid personality. He grew up learning English as a second language. The youngest of three children, he was heartbroken when his older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever at the age of nine. Jack Kerouac was of French-Canadian decent, born Jean-Louis Kerouac, on Main working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. '.Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.' Jack Kerouac