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Kerouac’s classic tale of Buddhist Enlightenment, on the road in Paris...
In ‘Satori in Paris’ Jack Kerouac, a footloose American of French-Canadian parentage, voyages to France to seek the origins of his surname...
But it is also, perhaps more than any of his other novels, a book about Kerouac’s lifelong love affair with Eastern mysticism. While conversing with a cab driver he experiences, all of a sudden, a ‘satori’ – the Japanese term for a ‘sudden awakening’; the Enlightenment of Zen Buddhism. Or as Kerouac calls it, ‘a kick in the eye...’
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Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children in a French-Canadian family. Having left college, he joined the merchant marines and began the restless wanderings that were to continue for the greater part of his life. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. On the Road, although written in 1951 (in a few hectic days on a scroll of newsprint), was not published until 1957 – it made him one of the most controversial and best-known writers of his time. Publication of his many other books, among them The Subterraneans, Doctor Sax and Desolation Angels, followed. Jack Kerouac died in St. Petersburg, Florida at the age of forty-seven.
In Satori in Paris Jack Kerouac, a footloose American of French-Canadian parentage, voyages to France to seek the origins of his surname...
But Satori in Paris is also, perhaps more than any of his other novels, a book about Kerouac’s lifelong love affair with eastern mysticism. While conversing with a cab driver he experiences, all of a sudden, a ‘satori’ – the Japanese term for a ‘sudden awakening’; the Enlightenment of Zen Buddhism. Or as Kerouac calls it, ‘a kick in the eye...’
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- PublisherGrafton
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0586055452
- ISBN 13 9780586055458
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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