On the Road: The Original Scroll

Synopsis

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of on the road, published as kerouac originally composed it “the sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of on the road] for our time. It is a dazzling piece of writing. ”—the new york times book review during three weeks in 1951, jack kerouac wrote the first draft of on the road—typed as a long, single-spaced paragraph on eight sheets of tracing paper, which he taped together to form a scroll.