On the Road

E11809

Beat Generation novel novel

On the Road is Jack Kerouac’s seminal Beat Generation novel that chronicles restless cross-country journeys and helped define postwar American counterculture.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
On the Road canonical	39
On the Road (1957 novel)	3
On the Road (novel)	2
"On the Road"	1
On the Road (2012 film)	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Beat Generation novel ⓘ novel ⓘ
adaptation	On the Road self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: On the Road (2012 film)
author	Jack Kerouac ⓘ
basedOn	Jack Kerouac’s cross-country travels ⓘ
centralTheme	American counterculture ⓘ freedom ⓘ friendship ⓘ restlessness ⓘ search for meaning ⓘ spiritual quest ⓘ travel ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
featuresLocation	Mile High City ⓘ surface form: Denver Mexico ⓘ New York City ⓘ San Francisco ⓘ
filmAdaptationDirector	Walter Salles ⓘ
followsCharacter	Dean Moriarty ⓘ Sal Paradise ⓘ
genre	Beat literature ⓘ autobiographical novel ⓘ picaresque novel ⓘ roman à clef ⓘ
hasISBN	978-0-14-004259-7 ⓘ
influenced	1960s counterculture ⓘ American road literature ⓘ postwar American counterculture ⓘ
inspiredBy	Allen Ginsberg ⓘ Neal Cassady ⓘ William S. Burroughs ⓘ
literaryMovement	Beat Generation ⓘ
majorCharacter	Carlo Marx ⓘ Dean Moriarty ⓘ Marylou ⓘ Old Bull Lee ⓘ
mediaType	print ⓘ
narrativePerspective	first-person ⓘ
narrator	Sal Paradise ⓘ
notableRecognition	classic of 20th-century American literature ⓘ landmark work of the Beat Generation ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
protagonist	Sal Paradise ⓘ
publicationDate	1957-09-05 ⓘ
publisher	The Viking Press ⓘ surface form: Viking Press
setInPeriod	late 1940s ⓘ post–World War II era ⓘ
styleCharacteristic	jazz-influenced rhythm ⓘ spontaneous prose ⓘ
yearPublished	1957 ⓘ

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this entity surface form: On the Road (2012 film)

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