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Sal Paradise is the
narrator and the
protagonist in
Jack Kerouac's novel
On the Road. Sal, an Italian-American youth living in
New Jersey with his aunt, is an uninspired writer working on a book who follows and accompanies a friend's friend,
Dean Moriarty, a young and reckless Denver vagrant, on his journeys across America and describes his trips with and without Dean in search of kicks.
On the Road is known as a semi-autobiographic story, and Jack Kerouac admitted himself being Sal Paradise, when the journalists asked him if he was Dean Moriarty, who was actually inspired by another Beat hero and a close friend of Kerouac,
Neal Cassady. Indeed, the connections between Sal and Kerouac are significant. Jack, coming from a French origin himself, created Sal as an Italian-American based on his life; while Sal lives with his aunt in New Jersey, Kerouac lived with his mother in New York.
Sal Paradise is a widely known 20th Century fictional Beat character, and Jack Kerouac one of the pioneers of modern fiction.
In Popular Culture
The first song
Stuck Between Stations by
The Hold Steady on the album
Boys and Girls in America starts with the lyric, "There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America, they've such a sad time together."
Sal Paradise was also the name of an
indie rock band on
Tooth & Nail Records in the mid
1990s, and he's mentioned in a song by singer-songwriter
Pete Wylie, who quotes, "The city intellectuals of the world are divorced from the full bodied blood-of-the-land and are just rootless fools."
A story, as written by "Sal Paradyse", appears in Alan Moore's .
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