![]() The book is a doorstopper clocking in at nearly 500 pages long, and, like his more famous work, based on his own life. To account for such techniques - which permeate the otherwise disorganized and unstudied style of "On the Road" - readers can look back to Kerouac's first published novel, "The Town and the City," which was released in 1950 when Kerouac was 28 years old (per Britannica). ![]() ![]() But the passage is not as wild and freewheeling as it might first appear, with Jack Kerouac employing classical literary devices - anaphora, parallelism - to create the sense of tension building before a sudden release. So reads one of the most famous passages from " On the Road," one of the novel's many ecstatic, performative climaxes. ![]()
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