Jack
Kerouac wrote 'On the road' in a roll of paper that's used in
Architecture projects. It was found in his apartment in Manhattan, on
which ran one of the most emblematic novels of the 20th century. There
are more than 36 meters of typewritten manuscript reached a record sale
in an auction, in 2001 in New York. James Irsay, proprietor of the
football team American Indianapolis Colts, paid €2.8 million for it.
In the United States alone an average of 100,000 copies are sold annually. In Spain, Anagrama has been editing it since 1986, and since then each year they re-edited it. For the version in the original scroll there's a new translation, by Jesus Zualika. Coppola, proprietor of the rights for the film, has put it in the hands of Water Salles.
Very few books have preserved so intact the power of infectiousness as 'On the road'. A book converted in the symbol of the identity of millions of men that found in Kerouac the overwhelming answer to their melancholy.
Written in 1951 and first published in 1957 'On the road' continues being the Bible of so many who searched - and still searching - the route of 'the mad and the crazy', for sense of life, for life itself ...The scroll is, has been, as famous as the book written on it. I have never heard of this writer before, nor this amazing scroll, and I doubt I ever will, not unless I got millions in my pocket to wait for my chance. Have to admit I am dead curious about both.
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