I recently read On The Road by Jack Kerouac, what other novels of his focus on the beat generation?

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and what Kerouac novels focus on things that were happening in the fifties?

Answer 1

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technically most of them..since he pretty much defines it..recommended are the subteranneans, dharma bums, desolation angels and big sur, which is a frightening tale of his deep alcoholism. All the rest gets a bit tedious to be honest. Reading around the subject with biographies of ginsberg, corso or their poetry and the novels of burroughs is pretty satisfying too...I'm yer man on this subject cos I was mad on that when I was younger. ask away!

Answer 2

The Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg's Howl (both were subject to obscenity trials by the way).

Other writers to look out for are Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Peter Orlovsky, and John Clellon Holmes - and practically anything else by Kerouac: The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, and Visions of Cody.

In England there was Colin Macinnes a faint echo of what was happening in the US. We would have to wait until the Lady Chatterly trial to see as much liberalisation.

It paved the way for later generations like Hubert Selby and Last Exit to Brooklyn resulting in another famous obscenity trial. How daring it all must have seen then: how dull much of what it spawned seems now.

Answer 3

I cannot do better than any of your other answerers - they have supplied the titles, and the contemporary writers.
On The Road (in my day) was a coming of age novel - how I longed to be there and away from suffocating England! The boredom in this country at that time was lethal.

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