Satori in Paris

by Jack Kerouac

Overview

Satori in Paris and Pic, two of Jack Kerouac's last novels, showcase the remarkable range and versatility of his mature talent. Satori in Paris is a rollicking autobiographical account of Kerouac's search for his heritage in France, and lands the author in his familiar milieu of seedy bars and all-night conversations. Pic is Kerouac's final novel and one of his most unusual. Narrated by ten-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson in a North Carolina vernacular, the novel charts the adventures of Pic and his brother Slim as they travel from the rural South to Harlem in the 1940s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802130617
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	01/12/1994
Series:	Kerouac, Jack
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

JACK KEROUAC was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. He won a scholarship to Columbia University, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. On the Road, published in 1957, epitomized to the world what became known as the “Beat generation” and made Kerouac one of the best-known writers of his time. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969.

Editorial Reviews

Kerouac’s largely autobiographical novel tracing his travels through France at age forty-three takes its name from a Japanese word for ‘sudden illumination.’ First published two years before the Beat writer’s death and newly reprinted, ‘this book’ll say,’ he tells his reader early on, ‘in effect, have pity on us all.’”

New York Times

Kerouac is an uncanny archetype for a whole generation of Americans who trekked through the ’60s and ’70s.”

praise for the author New York Times

A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things.”

praise for the author The Guardian (London)

Praise for Satori in Paris and Jack Kerouac:

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“A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things.”—The Guardian

“An outsider in America, Jack Kerouac was a true original.”—Ann Charters

“The wonder of Kerouac’s muscular, free-form, imagistic language still astonishes. He remains an essential American mythologizer—one caught up in that backstreet world of bohemian life, before it was transformed by the harsh social Darwinism of capitalism . . . A hundred years after his birth, we still want to live that Kerouacian vision of life as one long cool stretch of highway.”—New Statesman

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