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Con el paso del tiempo, "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 bop, que consiguio para Kerouac el titulo de "heredero de Charlie Parker", en esta novela se narran los viajes enloquecidos, a bordo de Cadillacs prestados y Dodges desvencijados, de Dean Moriarty el mitico hipster, el heroe de todos los beatniks, "un demente, un angel, un pordiosero" y el narrador Sal Paradise, recorriendo el continente, de Nueva York a Nueva Orleans, Ciudad de Mexico, San Francisco, Chicago y regreso a Nueva York. Alcohol, orgias, marihuana, extasis, angustia y desolacion, el retrato de una America subterranea, autentica y desinhibida, ajena a todo stablishment. Una cronica cuyos protagonistas, en la vida real y en el libro, fueron Jack Kerouac (Sal Paradise), Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty), Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs.

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling in love with Montmartre - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own particular philosophy of self-fulfillment.

Kerouacs last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy.Pic, or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to live with another relative, his older brother, Slim, comes to rescue him. Together they hitch to New York City and, eventually, all the way to California, encountering hardship, kindness, music, love and danger as they go.

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She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary. Based on Jack Kerouacs own real-life love affair in Mexico city, this is the story of a mans ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control. A narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums Allen Ginsberg

Quest-ce que je leur dis quand ils veulent savoir ce que je fais dans la vie ? Je leur dis seulement ce que je ne veux pas faire. Pour le reste, je ne sais pas, donc je ne dis rien."Apres leur rencontre dans un bar new-yorkais, Bill, professeur a Columbia, decide de dire adieu a sa vie bien rangee pour sengager dans la Marine avec Wesley, un jeune matelot. Tous deux prennent la route sans un sou afin datteindre Boston puis sembarquer sur le Westminster, direction le Groenland. Alors que les doutes commencent a assaillir Bill, Wesley se perd dans Boston, pourchasse par celle quil a abandonneePremier roman de Jack Kerouac, inedit et retrouve dans ses archives, Locean est mon frere exalte la fureur de vivre avec une puissance rare.

The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious eyesDescribed by Kerouac as my most serious sad and true book, Visions of Gerard forms the first volume of his memoir cycle the Duluoz Legend. Based on Jack Kerouacs memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - its wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, joy and pain. It is a haunting exploration of the precariousness of existence.Called a "pain-tale" by Kerouac, its the story of an almost divine, Buddha-like child wracked with sickness and suffering Guardian

En sus últimos años, Jack Kerouac consideraba que todas sus obras eran parte de una «enorme comedia» que él titulaba «La leyenda de los Duluoz». Y Jack Duluoz era él mismo, el protagonista de todas s

A hores d'ara, A la carretera ja és més que una novel·la: és un referent imprescindible per entendre el pensament i el discurs d'una generació -la generació beat- que, amb noms com Neal Cassady, Allan Ginsberg, William Burroughs i el mateix Jack Kerouac, va sotragar als anys cinquanta els fonaments de la societat americana, i, de retop, la seva literatura. A la carretera es la cronica apassionada, rebel i visceral dels viatges a traves dels Estats Units d'una colla de joves amb ganes de coneixer el mon i pervertir-lo, i es tambe un acid retrat d'una joventut que buscava un mon diferent, lluny del somni america.

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.