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Jack Kerouac amerikai író, költő és művész. Annak az írói és baráti körnek volt a tagja, amely az általa kitalált „beatnemzedék” néven vált leginkább ismertté.

Kerouac már élete során híressé vált, de kevés kritikai elismerést kapott. Ma viszont jelentős és befolyásos szerzőként tartják számon. Spontán, vallomásos prózai stílusa számos írót megihletett, köztük Tom Robbinst, Lester Bangset, Richard Brautigant és Ken Kesey-t, továbbá a New Journalism újságírói műfaj egyes szerzőit. Kerouac hatott a baby boom nemzedék zenészeire, beleértve a The Beatlest, Bob Dylant, Morrisseyt és Jim Morrisont. Legismertebb művei az Úton, a Dharma hobók, a Művésztelep és a Cody látomásai .

Kerouac ifjú felnőttként vagy a hatalmas amerikai tájakon barangolt, vagy pedig az édesanyjával élt. A háború után átalakuló Amerikában előbb a helyét kereste, de végül elvetette az 50-es évek értékeit és társadalmi normáit. Írásai gyakran tükrözik azt a vágyát, hogy kiszabaduljon a társadalmi kötöttségekből, és magasabb értelmet találjon.

Útkeresése folyamán Kerouac drogokkal kísérletezett, és behajózta a világot. Írásaira gyakran tekintenek úgy, mint a 60-as évek ellenkultúrájának katalizátorára. Kerouac 47 évesen, a floridai St. Petersburgban hunyt el, alkoholizmus kiváltotta belső vérzés következtében. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. március 1922 – 21. október 1969
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“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

Not a Kerouac quote, but by Allen Ginsberg in his journal of 30 July 1947. Published in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, page 199.
Misattributed

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

Jack Kerouac könyv On the Road

Változat: I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours.
Forrás: On the Road

“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”

Jack Kerouac könyv Lonesome Traveler

Lonesome Traveler (1960)

“beautiful insane
in the rain”

Jack Kerouac könyv The Subterraneans

Forrás: The Subterraneans

“I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”

Kerouac, as quoted by Allen Ginsberg in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (2006), page 250.

“Everything is going to the beat — It's the beat generation”

Jack Kerouac könyv Desolation Angels

Desolation Angels (1965)
Kontextus: Everything is going to the beat — It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...

“I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific…”

"The Origins of the Beat Generation" in Playboy (June 1959)
Kontextus: I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.

“I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.”

Jack Kerouac könyv On the Road

Part Five
On the Road (1957)
Kontextus: So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

“We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?"”

But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.
"Is There A Beat Generation?" forum at Hunter College, New York, New York (8 November 1958)

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”

Jack Kerouac könyv The Dharma Bums

Forrás: The Dharma Bums

“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?”

Jack Kerouac könyv On the Road

Változat: Why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
Forrás: On the Road