Jack Kerouac

Matkalla on yhdysvaltalaisen kirjailijan Jack Kerouacin vuonna 1957 julkaistu romaani, joka perustuu hänen ystäviensä kanssa poikki Amerikan tekemäänsä matkaan. Sitä pidetään toisen maailmansodan jälkeisen beat-sukupolven ja 1960-luvun vastakulttuurin keskeisenä teoksena. Se kuvaa elämää, jonka taustana on jazz, …

One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real …

Matkalla on yhdysvaltalaisen kirjailijan Jack Kerouacin vuonna 1957 julkaistu romaani, joka perustuu hänen ystäviensä kanssa poikki Amerikan tekemäänsä matkaan. Sitä pidetään toisen maailmansodan jälkeisen beat-sukupolven ja 1960-luvun vastakulttuurin keskeisenä teoksena. Se kuvaa elämää, jonka taustana on jazz, …

A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma BumsIn this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he …

Desolation Angels is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. It was published in 1965, but was written years earlier, around the time On the Road was in the process of publication. According to the book's foreword, the opening section of …

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, …

Lonesome Traveler is a collection of short stories and sketches by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, published in 1960. It is a compilation of Kerouac's journal entries about traveling the United States, Mexico, Morocco, the United Kingdom and France, and covers similar issues to his novels, such as …

Visions of Cody is an experimental novel by Jack Kerouac. It was written in 1951-1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1972, it had by then achieved an underground reputation. Since its first printing, Visions of Cody has been published with an introduction by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg titled "The …

Mexico City Blues is a poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959 composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. Written between 1954 and 1957, the poem the product of Kerouac's spontaneous prose, his Buddhism, and his disappointment at his failure to publish a novel between 1950's The Town and the City and 1957's On the Road.