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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
With his novel "On the Road", in which he described his restless journey as "lonesome traveller" in the 1950s in the USA, the writer Jack Kerouac expressed the Beat Generation's attitude to life. He wrote the manuscript of the book in just three weeks on paper, which he glued together to form a roll so that his writing flow was not impeded. (axa)