Heading Stateside for your own voyage of discovery? Take some inspiration from a couple of these titles.

　　即将去美利坚开启你的探索之旅吗?先来读读下面这几本书获得一点启发吧。

　　1. JACK KEROUAC, ON THE ROAD

　　1. 《在路上》，杰克·凯鲁亚克著

　　Published in 1957, Kerouac’s masterpiece captured the voice of America’s ‘Beat Generation’, an iconoclastic group of writers that sprung up in the post-war US as a reaction against mainstream social values:materialism, capitalist accumulation, passive acceptance of religious and ethical codes. On the Road describes the whistle-stop travels of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty. The story is enriched by the clarity of Kerouac’s spontaneous prose, yet has resounded with young readers to this day for its underlying values of exploration, experimentalism, and the (ultimately fruitless) search for true value in life.

　　凯鲁亚克在1957年出版的这部杰作发出了美国“垮掉的一代”的声音，这一派作家的思想有悖于传统信仰，在二战后的美国迅速崛起，反应了对战后祖国主流价值观，即物质主义、资本积累、对宗教和道德准则的被动接受等的抗议。《在路上》描绘了萨尔(Sal Paradise)与狄安(Dean Moriarty)的美国之行。凯鲁亚克的散文自然真切，也因为故事内在的价值观——探索、尝试、(虽说最后没有成功却)不断寻找生命的真实意义等——一直引起年轻读者的共鸣。