Jack Kerouac (Jean-Louis Lebri de Kerouac, 1922–1969) is a writer of the era, a writer of paradox, who sowed the wind and did not have time to really know that he had reaped a storm that has not subsided even in our times. Two very different and equal talented works of Jack Kerouac. A small and completely autobiographical novel “Underground”, according to legend, written in just three days, about the passionate, painful love-obsession of a white guy for a black beauty, a novel filled with soul-tearing voices of jazz, streams of alcohol and a frenzied, exhausting and backhanded life young bohemians of the 50s. And the story “Alive” is a tragicomic saga, written from the perspective of a cheerful boy from the southern outback.