Jack Kerouac

«El rollo original de On the Road es una de las más veneradas y enigmáticas reliquias de la literatura moderna... Un texto fascinante» (James Campbell, The Times Literary Supplement).El Sal Paradise

En el camino, un libro que fue la biblia y el manifiesto de la Generación Beat, se ha convertido en una novela de culto y en un clásico de la literatura norteamericana. Con un inconfundible estilo bo

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.

This novel 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

Los subterráneos es una de las mejores novelas de Jack Kerouac; en ella se precisa su voluntad de llevar a cabo una suerte de autobiografía literaria que será, al mismo tiempo, una crónica legendaria de la Generacion Beat. En efecto, casi todo es aqui relato autobiografico, fraseado con ese inimitable estilo sincopado que Kerouac aprendio escuchando en el Mintons de Nueva York a los grandes del bop.Al igual que Charlie Parker, Kerouac improvisa en torno a un tema, y escribe de la manera mas flexible, adaptandose en cada episodio a las resonancias que le sugiere el momento.La novela transcurre en San Francisco, ciudad a la que Kerouac llego en 1953, antes de alcanzar la fama, y es un fresco de dias y de noches habitadas por el jazz, el alcohol y las drogas, cabalgando entre la desesperacion absoluta y las ilusiones mas descabelladas, al hilo de una estremecedora historia de amor: la del escritor Leo Percepied (una nueva encarnacion de Kerouac) y una muchacha negra, Mardou Fox, el angel negro, desesperado y sombrio, de este mundo subterraneo de Frisco (Vito Amoruso).El estilo de vida y las actitudes de la Generacion Beat fueron esencialmente experimentos primigenios que condujeron a la revolucion cultural de los sesenta, y esta clarisimo que, de entre la escasa literatura que ha producido la contracultura, ninguna obra es tan vibrante, contundente y original como la de Kerouac(Rolling Stone).

Two ebullient young men search for truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and yabyum in San Francisco''s Bohemia to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop D

Alla radice di questo romanzo, pubblicato nel 1958 e subito processato per oscenità, c'è una vicenda reale, la storia d'amore vissuta dall'autore con una ragazza di colore, che in queste pagine rivive come in una confessione tanto difficile quanto liberatoria. Al centro, la figura di Mardou, sensuale, fascinosa, una creatura della notte attorno alla quale gira vorticosamente, ossessivamente, la vita dell'amante, e la città stessa (New York nella realtà, San Francisco nella finzione letteraria): una città onirica, cupa, frenetica, piena di alcol, di droghe, di sesso, di arte e di vita. Ma soprattutto, ciò che emerge dalla lettura dei "Sotterranei", è la rivoluzionaria lingua di Kerouac, che così descriveva la propria scrittura: "Ho inventato una nuova prosa, la prosa moderna, ondate spontanee e prive di revisioni, rapide, mozzafiato, come il jazz". Postfazione di Fernanda Pivano.

La légende veut que Kerouac se soit dopé � la benzédrine pour écrire Sur la route, qu’il l’ait composé en trois semaines, sur un long rouleau de papier télétype, sans ponctuation. Il s’était mis au c

Jack Kerouac nos cuenta de niño, de Lowell, su ciudad, de sus amigos, de sus fantasmas y, sobre todo, de lo que duerme debajo del Castillo. Con su habitual prosa armónica, Kerouac nos presenta a Doctor Sax, sombra oscura que sólo él puede ver en las noches terribles de la infancia.

Set in 1953, this play is about tension, about friendship, and about karma - what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It portrays an authentic and alternate 1950s America. "Beat Generation" is a play about tension, about friendship, and about karma - what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It ends with a kind of satori-like reaffirmation of the power of friendship, of doing good through not doing, and the intrinsic worth of the throw-away little exchanges that make up our lives. Written in 1957, the same year that "On the Road" was first published, and set in 1953, "Beat Generation" portrays an authentic and alternate 1950s America. Kerouac's characters are working-class men and women - a step away from vagrants, but not a big step. Their dialogue positively sings, suggesting jazz riffs in their rhythm and content, and Kerouac, like a master composer, arranges it to magical effect. Here is the heart and soul of the beat mentality, the zeitgeist that blossomed over the decades and eventually culminated in the counter-culture of 1960s America. It's a spirit that still lives.

A biography of the founder of Buddhism and a study of Siddartha Gautama''s life and works. It recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha''s upbringing and his father''s wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. It offers an introduction to the world of Buddhism.