Scrolling Through: Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road.
The article focuses on the complex and lengthy journey of Jack Kerouac's novel *On the Road* from conception to publication. It details how Kerouac began drafting the novel in 1951, using a continuous scroll of paper, and highlights the myth surrounding its spontaneous creation, which overlooks the...
| Publicado en: | American Scholar Vol. 94; no. 4; pp. 92 - 104 |
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