Examen oral para la EE de Inglés II

2. Jean-Louis “Jack” Kerouac
• March 12, 1922; Florida.
• Novelist and poet.
• Pioneer of The Beat
Generation.

3. Jack Kerouac’s and backpack traveling

4. His most important books
• On the road (1957)
• The Subterraneans (1958)
• Dharma buns (1958)
• Satori in Paris (1966)
• Tristessa (1969)

5. The Beat generation
• The 50’s… Dislike to american classic values,
drugs, a huge sexual freedom and eastern
philosophy.
• Howl by Allen Ginsberg and Naked Lunch by
William Borroughs.

7. Beatnik is not Beat