Satori in Paris

Beskrivning

Titel: Satori in Paris
Författare: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 0394174372
Förlag: Grove Press
Utgivningsår: 1981
Språk: Engelska
Bandtyp: Pocket
Skick: Gott skick – gulnade snitt, inlaga och främre omslag; något nötta hörn; ryggändar och kanter.

A Black Cat book.

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!’

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.