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From the renowned Beat writer, Kerouac's colorful and meandering
search for his family history, now reissued following his centenary
celebrationSatori in Paris is the semi-autobiographical tale of
Jack Kerouac's trip to France in search of his heritage. Beginning
in Paris and moving west to Brittany, Kerouac traces the paths of
his ancestors and explores his own understanding of the Buddhism
that came to define his beliefs. From his familiar milieu of
strangers and all-night conversations in seedy bars, to a pivotal
cab ride in which he experiences Buddhism's satori--a feeling of
sudden understanding--Kerouac's affecting and revolutionary writing
transports the reader. Published at the height of his fame and
showcasing his mature talent, Satori in Paris is a lyrical,
rollicking tale of philosophy, identity, and the power and
strangeness of travel.
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Dr. Sax (Paperback)
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From the most famous of the Beat writers, the semi-autobiographical
novel of growing up between dreams and nightmares in early
twentieth century Massachusetts, now reissued following Kerouac's
centenary celebrationA haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence,
Dr. Sax is the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing
up in Kerouac's own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell,
Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat,
and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons
that populate Jack's fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and
dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in
Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that
he once described as "the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I
will write."
One of the renowned Beat writer's most formally inventive books,
Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's essential work of lyric verse,
now reissued following his centenary celebrationWritten between
1954 and 1957, and published originally by Grove Press in 1959,
Mexico City Blues is Kerouac's most important verse work. It
incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous
composition and his interest in Buddhism. Memories, fantasies,
dreams, and surrealistic free association are lyrically combined in
the loose format inspired by jazz and the blues. Written while
Kerouac was living in Mexico City, and with references to William
S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and Bill Garver, this exciting book in
Kerouac's oeuvre is an original and moving epic of sound, rhythm,
and religion.
"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it."
In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley,
CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire
lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra
for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep
contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. He wrote in his journal
that he planned "to concentrate on emptiness of self, other selves,
living beings, and universal self." In letters to friends he
proclaimed, "Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can
feel it." Kerouac's experience on Desolation Peak forms the climax
of his novel The Dharma Bums and has also been depicted in part 1
of Desolation Angels and a chapter in his nonfiction book Lonesome
Traveler. None of these versions offers a full, true picture,
however; and for that reason, Desolation Peak is essential reading.
What separates Kerouac from all other writers is the depth that he
went in exploring his own consciousness, and what will prove his
most enduring legacy is the record he left of that exploration,
revealing the psyche of a sensitive, tortured artist grappling with
himself in the mid-20th Century. The highlight of Desolation Peak
is the journal he kept, starkly revealing the depth of his poverty,
the extremity of his mood swings, and the ongoing arguments with
himself over the future direction of his life, his writing, and
faith. Along with the journal, he worked on a series of projects,
including "Ozone Park," another installment of the Duluoz Legend
beginning in 1943, after his discharge from the Navy; "The Martin
Family," an intended sequel to The Town and the City, and
"Desolation Adventure," a series of sketches that became part 1 of
Desolation Angels,. In writing it, Kerouac was re-committing
himself to his more experimental, then-unpublishable style,
declaring in the journal that "the form of the future is no-form."
Also included in Collected Writings is "The Diamondcutter of
Perfect Knowing," Kerouac's "transliteration" of the Diamond Sutra,
his "Desolation Blues" and "Desolation Pops" poems, and assorted
prose sketches and dreams.
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance. Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be “Beat” and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago.
Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies is a collection of memorable
quotes from one of the most quoted writers in American literature.
One of the most celebrated writers in American literature, Jack
Kerouac helped an entire generation of post-WWII Americans explore
a purpose beyond the standard narrative values, spiritual
ideologies, and economic materialism that was rampant throughout
pre-war America. Alongside prominent beat writers like Allen
Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, Kerouac crafted a magnum opus
that would later be connected to counterculture movements
throughout the 1960s. His extensive collection of novels, short
stories, poetry, journals, letters, and other writings are often
littered with long-winded reflections, observations, proclamations,
and other mad ramblings about life, love, loss, loneliness, and the
search for a new American identity. Constantly pivoting from a
recluse searching â...once and for all what is the meaning of all
this existence and suffering and going to and fro in vain,â to a
seasoned road-warrior exploring the country and sifting through the
profound philosophies of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and the meaning of
Dharma, Kerouacâs spontaneous style of prose generates a kind of
unpolished wisdom that leaves a lasting impression long after
reading. The insights and quotes assembled in this book have been
woven into a patchwork of reoccurring themes found throughout
Kerouacâs writings, such as adventure, life, self-reflection, and
spirituality are heavily featured, but more niche quotes around
topics like cats, coffee, music, and sports can also be found. This
collection pulls from prominent novels such as Big Sur,
Desolation Angels, The Dharma Bums, On the Road: The Original
Scroll, The Subterraneans, Tristessa, Vanity of
Duluoz, and Visions of Cody, as well as some of
his selected short stories, poems, letters, and journals. Whether
youâre new to Kerouac, searching for inspiration in his words, or
are a self-proclaimed âmad oneâ looking to make sense of it
all, this quote book will undoubtedly serve as a go-to reference
for the discerning Kerouac reader.
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On the Road (Hardcover)
Jack Kerouac; Introduction by Ann Charters
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Jack Kerouac's Great American Novel, now in a delightful new
Clothbound Classics edition On the Road swings to the rhythms of
1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and
drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and
mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern
classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than
Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with
unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.
The town is Galloway in Massachusetts, birthplace of the five sons and three daughters of the Martin family in the early 1900s. The city is New York, the vast and heaving melting pot which lures them all in search of futures and identity. Nearly a decade before the publication of On the Road, the story of the Martins' epic transformation in The Town and the City marked the first true literary impact of the founding father of the Beat Generation. Inspired by grief over his father's death, and his own determination to write the Great American Novel, The Town and the City is an essential prelude to Jack Kerouac's later classics.
"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North
American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero
of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two
roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience.
Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his
sense of language as jazz combine to make "On the Road" an
inspirational work of lasting importance.
Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it
meant to be "Beat" and has inspired every generation since its
initial publication more than fifty years ago.
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On the Road (Paperback)
Jack Kerouac; Introduction by Ann Charters
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'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it
changed everyone else's' Bob Dylan Sal Paradise, a young innocent,
joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a
breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States.
Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink,
sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a
test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of
fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings
to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the
sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and
autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important
novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat
Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.
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Big Sur (Paperback)
Jack Kerouac
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With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at
once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such
visionaries as William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Allen
Ginsberg, Kerouac changed the face of American literature, igniting
a counterculture revolution that even now, decades later, burns
brighter than ever in Desolation Angels.
In one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's
legendary Beat classic, "On the Road," finally hits the big screen.
Directed by Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries"; "Paris, Je
T'Aime") and with a cast of some of Hollywood's biggest young
stars, including Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga), Sam Riley,
Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams ("Julie & Julia,"
"The Fighter"), Tom Sturridge, and Viggo Mortensen (the Lord of the
Rings trilogy, "The Road"), the film will attract new fans who will
be inspired by Kerouac's revolutionary writing.
'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'
Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America,
from the Beat writer who inspired a generation. Penguin Modern:
fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic
Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a
concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here
are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman
Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson;
essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories
surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern
Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of
outer space.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined
the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring
Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully
repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What's your
road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road,
any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.' Sal Paradise,
young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a
breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States.
Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink,
sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a
test of the limits of the American Dream. A brilliant blend of
fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel
defined the new 'Beat' generation and became the bible of the
counter culture. 'On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million
espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. The
alienation, the restlessness, the dissatisfaction were already
there waiting when Kerouac pointed out the road' William Burroughs
'Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world,
making me yearn for fresh experience' Hanif Kureishi, Independent
on Sunday Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922.
Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a
writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which
he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the
life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat
Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The
Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur,
Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa,
and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in
1969.
The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey
through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" instantly
defined a generation upon its publication in 1957: it was, in the
words of a "New York Times" reviewer, "the clearest and most
important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself
named years ago as 'beat.'" Written in the mode of ecstatic
improvisation that Allen Ginsberg described as "spontaneous bop
prosody," Kerouac's novel remains electrifying in its thirst for
experience and its defiant rebuke of American conformity. In his
portrayal of the fervent relationship between the writer Sal
Paradise and his outrageous, exasperating, and inimitable friend
Dean Moriarty, Kerouac created one of the great friendships in
American literature; and his rendering of the cities and highways
and wildernesses that his characters restlessly explore are a
hallucinatory travelogue of a nation he both mourns and celebrates.
Now, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Kerouac's landmark
novel, The Library of America collects On the Road together with
four other autobiographical "road books" published in the late
1950s and early 1960s. "The Dharma Bums" (1958), at once an
exploration of Buddhist spirituality and an account of the Bay Area
poetry scene, is notable for its thinly veiled portraits of
Kerouac's acquaintances, including Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and
Kenneth Rexroth. "The Subterraneans" (1958) recounts a love affair
set amid the bars and bohemian haunts of San Francisco. "Tristessa"
(1960) is a melancholy novella describing a relationship with a
prostitute in Mexico City. Lonesome Traveler (1960) collects travel
essays that evoke journeys in Mexico andEurope, and concludes with
an elegiac lament for the lost world of the American hobo. Also
included in "Road Novels" are selections from Kerouac's journal,
which provide a fascinating perspective on his early impressions of
material eventually incorporated into "On the Road,"
The legendary novel whose true events inspired the film KILL YOUR
DARLINGS
In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling
Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown,
we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled
tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and
art, obsession and brutality, with scenes and characters drawn from
their own lives. Finally published after more than sixty years,
this is a captivating read, and incomparable literary artifact, and
a window into the lives and art of two of the twentieth century's
most influential writers.
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Book of Haikus (Paperback)
Jack Kerouac; Volume editing by Regina Weinrich
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Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic
trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful
as a Vivaldi pastorella.' Jack Kerouac. Renowned for his
groundbreaking Beat Generation novel "On the Road", Jack Kerouac
was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable
Japanese poetic form. Following in the tradition of Basho, Buson,
Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this
centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into
what he believed was the form's essence. He incorporated his
'American' haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks,
journals, sketchbooks, and recordings.In this edition, Kerouac
scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript
from Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of the rest of
his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources. The result
is a compact collection of more than five hundred poems that reveal
a lesser known but important side of Jack Kerouac's literary
legacy.
In this compelling first novel, Kerouac draws on his New England
mill-town boyhood to create the world of George and Marguerite
Martin and their eight children, each endowed with an energy and a
vision of life.
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Doctor Sax (Paperback)
Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted
his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow,
secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of
growing up in Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional
alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with
fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and
texture of his childhood: playing among the river weeds and
railroad tracks, going to church, witnessing life and death on the
street corners. Written when he was staying with William Burroughs
in Mexico in 1952, Doctor Sax was Kerouac's favourite of all his
books: a dark, vivid and magical evocation of a boy's vibrant inner
life.
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The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
Jack Kerouac; Introduction by Ann Douglas
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Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for
meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical
novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of
self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This
Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann
Douglas. Following the explosive energy of On the Road, the book
that put the Beat Genration on the literary map - and Jack Kerouac
on the bestseller list - comes The Dharma Bums, in which Kerouac
charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of
Dharma, or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley
the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of
solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly Bohemian
San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking
bouts and experiments in 'yabyum', they find the ascetic route
distinctly hard to follow.
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Tristeza
Jack Kerouac
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Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from
underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco
Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy" and "American haiku."
HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH before we all go to Heaven VISIONS OF
AMERICA All that hitchhikin All that railroadin All that comin back
to America --Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal
actor in the Beat Generation, and a companion of Allen Ginsberg and
Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the
Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler,
Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes (City Lights) and Scripture of the
Golden Eternity (City Lights).
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On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
Jack Kerouac; Edited by Howard Cunnell; Introduction by George Mouratidis, Joshua Kupetz, Penny Vlagopoulos
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Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal
Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in
a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle
Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret
Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten
Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen. This edition is transcribed
from the original manuscript: hundreds of typed pages taped
together by Kerouac to form a 'scroll', published word for word as
it was originally composed. Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young
innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), a
traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless,
exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their
hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex,
drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test
of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction
and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the
rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset
with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical
passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the
20th century, On the Road is the book that launched the Beat
Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement. 'The
most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important
utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years
ago as "beat"' The New York Times
Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of
two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their
major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them
climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.
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