Jack Kerouac

På drift eller På väg är en roman av Jack Kerouac utgiven den 5 september 1957. Romanen anses vara ett av de mest inflytelserika verken i den amerikanska beatnikrörelsen. Den har kallats för deras katekes, "den nya etniken". Romanen blev en formidabel succé, översattes till flertalet språk och har endast i USA sålt …

Old Angel Midnight is a long narrative poem by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It was culled from five notebooks spanning from 1956 to 1959, while Kerouac was fully absorbed by his studies of Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy. Kerouac initially experimented with Old Angel Midnight in 1953 in his diary titled …

Mexico City Blues is a poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959 composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. Written between 1954 and 1957, the poem the product of Kerouac's spontaneous prose, his Buddhism, and his disappointment at his failure to publish a novel between 1950's The Town and the City and 1957's On the Road.