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Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Thursday, 1 May 2025

JACK KEROUAC - 5^C LINGUISTICO

On the Road, first published in the United States in 1957, is the most famous of Jack Kerouac’s many novels. It is semi-autobiographical, and is based on events that took place in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This is when Jack Kerouac (Sal Paradise in On the Road) and his friend Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty in the novel) travelled throughout the United States, covering huge distances in a very short time. The story begins with Sal meeting Dean when he comes to New York for the first time. They discuss travelling to the west of the United States or “going West.” At first, Sal goes travelling on his own. He goes to San Francisco, staying with friends on the way there and falling in love on the way back. He and Dean do not travel together until some time later, going from the East to the West and back again by car. Their adventures on the road involve meetings with girls, wild parties, getting drunk, taking drugs and enjoying sex. They never have much money and have to rely on delivering cars for people who don’t want to drive long distances themselves, doing casual work when they can, and sometimes stealing food, drink and gas.

The loosely structured writing style and the freedom of the behaviour and lives of the young people involved captured the attention of the public at the time. On the Road has remained a cult classic.

Wednesday, 23 April 2025

"Per favore, non perdere la capacità di sognare: quando un giovane perde questa capacità, non dico che diventa vecchio, no, perché i vecchi sognano. Diventa un pensionato della vita. È molto brutto. Per favore, giovani, non siate pensionati della vita, e non lasciatevi rubare la speranza! Mai! La speranza non delude mai!"

Papa Francesco