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to the happy family, with the mother This incohesive group began by being However, the latter had something
at home and the father at work from called the beats, in the sense of bea- the others didn't: an immense family
nine to five, with their two children, ten or defeated, and soon the press fortune. This allowed him to travel
living in a suburban white picket fen- added the Russian suffix “nick” to link to more distant lands and consume
ce house. Their dreams should only be the movement to communism: the heroin and other narcotics in an epic
professional success, a fully equipped greatest of sins in paranoid post-war excess of measure and duration. In
kitchen, and the latest model family America. his few moments of sobriety, he wro-
car. A straight, aseptic, and predic- te an autobiographical triptych in
table life. A group of young people The leading figure of this movement which “Queer ‘ fits between ’Junkie ‘
decided to take the opposite path: to was Jack Kerouak, whose magnum and ’Naked Lunch”. Out of the three
jump with their eyes closed into the opus “On the Road ” (adapted into a pieces, "Queer" exposes the writer
pit of human emotions, of sexual and movie in 2012 by Walter Salles) be- the most, detailing his intense desi-
substance experimentation, of excess, came the bible of this generation. re for sex and substances as a means
of an erratic life without plans, of sear- Very close in genius and friendship of escaping reality. In his renowned
ching for new paths and distant lands. were Allen Ginsberg and Burroughs. non-linear style, which poses signifi-