Jack Kerouac - On the Road - Themers Club : Computers , Mobiles and Web Development Themes

henry15112010 · #1 05-09-2015, 02:36 PM

Here is the legendary 1951 "scroll" draft of On the Road, word for word as Jack Kerouac originally composed it.

Though Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West 20th Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll, this document is among the most significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary American literary history. It represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a sustained burst of creative energy.

It was not until more than six years later, and after several new drafts, that Viking published, in 1957, the novel known to us today. The differences between the two versions are principally ones of significant detail and altered emphasis. The scroll is slightly longer and has a heightened linguistic virtuosity and a more sexually frenetic tone. It also uses the real names of Kerouac's friends instead of the fictional names he later invented for them.

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http://rapidgator.net/file/b0d5269872ebcd5ac4f0f76bb808bdfc/On.the.Road.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6abf410f44ae9c71b166b3335eee57d1/On.the.Road.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1f0d04cecd15ef4a4d4d643a4263b07b/On.the.Road.part3.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3aea8ed321356ffab485244750634a5d/On.the.Road.part4.rar.html

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http://uploaded.net/file/uk5j904m/On.the.Road.part1.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/7c0nw9ah/On.the.Road.part2.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/ceylkkq2/On.the.Road.part3.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/8vlzv4lj/On.the.Road.part4.rar