On the Road

Jack Kerouac

The Bible of the beat generation, one of the most important books of the last century.

A cult novel and the cornerstone of beat generation literature. A book that Jack wrote already in 1951, but nobody wanted to publish the uncensored original text at that time. Kerouac worked at the book for six more years. He arranged his wild, authentic text into a generally accepted form, which although reamined suggestive enough. The novel On the road caused in USA of the end of eighties a cultural boost and Jack Kerouac had become an icon of new, spontaneous and untabuized literature.

Jack Kerouac (1922 — 1969)

Jack Kerouac was an American writer best known for the novel On the Road, which became an American classic, pioneering the Beat Generation in the 1950s. The central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody. More.

Otakar Kořínek (1946)

A leading translator of Anglo-Saxon literature, which was twice rewarded for Literary Translation. More.

Palo a Janka Bálik

Janka and Palo Balik were starting with us our publishing house as a graphic designers, devised and created for Artforum many covers and visuals of a books. Many of them were awarded in the competition The Most Beautiful Book of Slovakia. More.