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| title = On the Road
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| caption = Road Trips! Drinking! Poverty!
| author = Jack Kerouac
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| publication date = September 5, 1957
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{{quote|''Slim sits down at the piano and hits two notes, two Cs, then two more, then one, then two, and suddenly the big burly bass-player wakes up from a reverie and realizes Slim is playing "C-Jam Blues" and he slugs in his big forefinger on the string and the bog booming beat begins...''|Part of one of the many sentences in ''On The Road''}}
'''''On The Road''''' is a 1951 novel by [[Jack Kerouac]]. It is considered to be the masterwork of [[The Beat Generation]], along with ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' and ''[[Howl]].'' The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book did not receive publication until 1957.
It is semi-autobiographical and relates events from the time Kerouac spent spent traveling and occasionally hitchhiking from coast to coast. However, because of legal reasons, the main character is actually an [[Author Avatar]] named [[Squat's in a Name|Sal Paradise]] who[[Perpetual Poverty|semi-impoverished]] writer and recent divorcee. It also details his friendship with the [[The Mad Hatter|increasingly crazy]] Neal Cassady (whose name has been changed to Dean Moriarity) and other writers of [[The Beat Generation]] such as [[William S. Burroughs]] and [[Allen Ginsberg]] who also show up with different names.
The original manuscript was written in [[Wall of Text|one long scroll with no paragraph breaks whatsoever]].
''On The Road'' has had a huge influence on modern culture with such personages as [[Bob Dylan]], Jim Morrison and Hunter S. Thompson, among others, citing it as an inspiration. It is also considered one of the quintessential American [[Road Movie|Road Trip]] novels, but then again, so is ''[[Lolita]]''.
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Camille and Marylou for Dean.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Sal Paradise is Jack Kerouac. Also, Dean Moriarty is fellow Beat writer Neal Cassady, Old Bull Lee is [[William S. Burroughs]], and Carlo Marx is [[Allen Ginsberg]]. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in ''The Subterraneans'', he is named Leo Percepied.
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