SOURCE: “The Road as Transition,” in The Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac: A Study of the Fiction, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987, pp. 34-56.
In the following essay, Weinreich discusses On the Road as a picaresque novel.
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