Sebastian Kobler writes: The first meeting of the rebooted English Society will be today at 12:45 in E1. We will be discussing
On The Road, Jack Kerouac’s seminal 1957 novel based on his own travels around the United States.
We follow Sal Paradise and his friend Dean Moriarty as they hit the road, travelling across late 1940s America, indulging in the jazz-influenced underground culture. The novel is considered a classic of the Beat literary movement, which was closely intertwined with the cultural revolution of post-war America and influenced, among others, The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Come along this lunchtime to find out more about
On The Road and discuss a few passages.
If you'd like to know a little more about Kerouac and his novel, here's a piece by Mr O'Keeffe reflecting on the significance of cars and journeys in
On The Road, and in twentieth-century American literature in general.
