- American Novelists, Beat generation, Biography, Description
Satori in Paris: An autobiographical account of Kerouac's search for his heritage in France, populated by seedy bars and all-night conversations. Pic: Ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson of North Carolina narrates his adventures with his brother Slim as they travel from the rural South to Harlem in the 1940s.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 117
- Publisher
- Gallimard, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, GALLIMARD
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780141198231
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“SOMEWHERE DURING MY TEN DAYS IN PARIS (AND Brittany) I received an illumination of some kind that seems to've changed me again, towards what I suppose'll be my pattern for another seven years or more: in effect, a satori: the Japanese word for "sudden illumination," "sudden awakening" or simply "kick in the eye."”
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
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