![]() ![]() ![]() And still she was correct in recognizing a novel that, however repetitive its narrative, still burns, burns, burns, like fabulous yellow roman candles. Allen Ginsberg’s Howl was still on trial for obscenity. While Kerouac skyrocketed to fame soon after On The Road’s publication, Adams was writing at a time when the Beat Generation was still new and Kerouac the man, not the author, had yet to become its avatar. ![]() The next month, The Atlantic’s Phoebe-Lou Adams was tasked with reviewing it.Īdams notes that “Dope, liquor, girls, jazz, and fast cars, in that order, are Dean’s Ladder to Nirvana” as she describes a “most readable” if “repetitive” novel that only “disappoints because it constantly promises a conclusion of real importance… and cannot deliver.” She praises the “part severe simplicity, part hep-cap jargon, part baroque fireworks” of Kerouac’s breakneck style. On September 5th, 1957, Viking Press released Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. They must make a judgment before the public’s reactions, the movies, and-in this case-the author’s beatification. Book reviewers, at the time of writing, can only review the novel in front of them. ![]()
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