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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.
Although he was born and raised in Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac's family was French-Canadian, a fact of which he was proud. Published in 1967, when Kerouac was at the height of his fame, this book tells the story of a ten-day visit to Paris and Brittany in search of his ancestors. On this hectic odyssey, fascinated by everything and everyone he met, from a faded French beauty in a Montparnasse gangster bar to one of his strange, foppish Breton namesakes, Kerouac experienced a feeling of transcendence, a "Satori", which was to the Beat generation the culmination of all experience.
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0586091181
- ISBN 13 9780586091180
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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