THE BEAT GENERATION
Publié le 09/05/2016
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THE BEAT GENERATION The Beat Generation was a group of writers that emerged in the 1950s to reject literary formalism and the American culture built on capitalism and materialism. They included Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others. While ther...
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The book 'On the Road' was one of the flagship works of the 'Beat Generation', a term used by the author
Jack Kerouac to name a writer's group that found its inspiration in jazz, poetry, and drug use.
In 1958, the New York Times hailed it as « the most beautifully executed, the clearest and most important
utterance » of Kerouac's generation.
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet.
He is considered a literary iconoclast.
He was considered the father of the beat movement.
Today, he is considered an important and influential writer
who inspired others.
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