Jack Duluoz is the name used as a thin veil for the exploits of Jack Kerouac. Kerouac is a French-Canadian writer of poetry and prose, who made his first big splash in the literary world with "On the Road", a stream of consciousness novel that is purported to have kicked off the Beat Generation in the 1950s. All adventures recorded in this book are written in the manner of a journal. Kerouac changed the names of friends and popular figures but the attempt at veiling anybody's identity was a farce.
As a person, Duluoz is desperate and confused. One minute Duluoz wants nothing more than solitude; another minute the thought of being away from his friends and the liveliness of the city is too much to bear. Throughout the book, Duluoz goes from celebrating the.....
