Satori in Paris
$28.45
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2012
Summary
Kerouac’s classic tale of Buddhist Enlightenment
This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac’s own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac’s most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the strangers he meets and the all-night conversations he enjoys in seedy bars in Paris and Brittany, to the moment in a cab he experiences Buddhism’s satori - a feeling of sudden awakening - Ker…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198231 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141198230 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 98g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things
A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things * Guardian *
About The Author
Jack Kerouac
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.
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