![]() Here is the heart and soul of the beat mentality, the zeitgeist that blossomed over the decades and eventually culminated in the counter-culture of 1960s America. Their dialogue positively sings, suggesting jazz riffs in their rhythm and content, and Kerouac, like a master composer, arranges it to magical effect. ![]() Kerouac’s characters are working-class men and women a step away from vagrants, but not a big step. On the Road, novel by Jack Kerouac, written over the course of three weeks in 1951 and published in 1957. Written in 1957, the same year that On the Road was first published, and set in 1953, Beat Generation portrays an authentic and alternate 1950s America. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of the throw-away little exchanges that make up our lives. ![]() ![]() It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. Beat Generation is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma what it is and how you get it. ![]()
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