Jack Kerouac's “On The Road” became the Bible of something that he called the Beat Generation. But Kerouac would have wanted readers to appreciate his other works as well, biographer Joyce Johnson says.
called “The Voice is All” and had a two-year relationship with the Beat author that began just before “On The Road” was published.
Johnson says she ended up paying for Kerouac’s meal because he’d lost all of his money but the two hit it off from the jump. At the time, Johnson was working on her first novel and Kerouac gave her meaningful encouragement. And she learned a lot from writing him letters as he moved around. “On The Road” became the Bible of something that Kerouac called the Beat Generation. In 1948, Kerouac used the term to describe “marginal, struggling people who had had very hard lives” — people like himself, Johnson says.
“The American dream wasn't working for them,” Johnson says. “It was a period of tremendous conformity, sexual repression and young people were feeling very disaffected.” One reviewer even wrote that the book had been written by “a chimpanzee running a temperature.” Kerouac was “sensitive and very fragile,” Johnson says, so the criticism was painful.“Even a week after the review came out, a reporter started interviewing him. And there was this tremendous interest in him,” she says. “He said he didn't know who he was anymore.”
Kerouac died at 47 in 1969. Today, people talk about “On The Road” but not his other works like he would have wanted, she says.
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