Jack Keruak, a pioneer of beat literature, dropped out of college after the end of World War II and wrote on the experience of crossing western US and Mexico with Alan Ginzburg, William Burroughs, and Neil Cassidy. The journey of Sal Paradise, a young artist who literally projected Keruak himself, unfolds an impromptu style and free and enthusiastic story that does not depend on formalism, and contradicts the materialism of the American society and the fair moral virtues of the American society Bringing it up on the road to find true freedom and new enlightenment.

The young artist, Sal Paradise, is stimulated by the enthusiastic curiosity and enthusiasm of the young man Dean Moriarty, who has come to know him by chance, and travels with him on the American continent with a hitchhike. The diverse life of the people who meet and break up on the itinerary, various scenery, and the jazz rhythm that is unbroken everywhere unfold on the road. In the 1950s, due to the abundance of the military industry, materialism was prevailing in postwar American society, and in the bondage and surveillance of the Cold War that followed, the system became adaptive and conservative. This work enthused young people at the time by refusing to be a schoolboy of such a repressive and contradictory society, and by expressing a resilient youth culture that tried to gain real enlightenment as a free bum. You can still feel the hustle and bustle of Levi's jeans, convertible cars and coffee shops.

Jack Kerouac 's masterpiece, released in 1957. In this book, which borrowed the novel form, but close to autobiography - the main character, Sal Paradise, is the author 's delusion - Kerouac, author, They are drawing companions who met during the trip. Through the monologue of the protagonist in the unstructured framework, we can get a glimpse of American thought and culture.

This book was re-published in 2003 and includes a detailed list of works and a list of readings for reference.

On the Road Swings to the rhythms of the 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. Jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. Jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.