Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku
Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku is a reading of the haiku collected in Jack Kerouacs Book of Haikus, edited by Regina Weinreich, (2003), one of the two largest collections of English haiku. Above all, Kerouac wrote in h...
The Portable Jack Kerouac
This definitive Kerouac collection--the only anthology of his work ever published--is an essential introduction to one of the country's most influential writers. 'Kerouac's work represents the most extensive experiment in language and literary form undertaken by an American writer of his generation.'--The New York Times Book Review This one-volume omnibus, planned by Kerouac himself before his death and completed by his biographer, Ann Charters, makes clear the ambition and accomplishment of Jack Kerouac's 'Legend of Duluoz'--the story of his life told in the course of his many 'true-story novels.' As Kerouac once wrote, 'The whole thing forms one enormous comedy, seen through the eyes of poor Ti Jean (me), otherwise known as Jack Duluoz, the world of raging action and folly and also of gentle sweetness seen through the keyhole of his eye.' This compilation presents selections from the 'Legend of Duluoz' novels, in chronological order, from Dr. Sax to On the Road to Big Sur, and also
Buddhist Years
A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac's Buddhist thinking From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave...
Self-Portrait
A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive¿ Jack Kerouac's archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the wor...
On the Road: The Original Scroll
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it. On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "e;a sideburned her...
Unknown Kerouac
In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as never before the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success--a journey with deep roots in the language and culture of Kerouac's French Canadian childhood. Edited and published with unprecedented access to the Kerouac archives, The Unknown Kerouac presents two lost novels, The Night Is My Woman and Old Bull in the Bowery, which Kerouac wrote in French during the especially fruitful years of 1951 and 1952. Discovered among his papers in the mid-nineties, they have been translated into English for the first time by Jean-Christophe Cloutier, who incorporates Kerouac's own partial translations. Also included are two journals from the heart of this same crucial period. In Private Philologies, Riddles, and a Ten-Day Writing Log, Kerouac recounts a brief stay in
Becoming Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of se...
Rethinking Kerouac
This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife. This collection of essays by esteemed Bea...
Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination
An exploration of Kerouac's fiction, poetry, religious writing, journals, and correspondence. It encompasses his fictional rewriting of his personal life, his life-long quest for spiritual enlightenment, and his resolute belief in the blending of ...
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
An 'indispensable' (Chicago Tribune) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels 'Fascinating . . . provides a poignant picture of a life brimming with promise.'--The Boston Globe Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his classic On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two years old, including an excerpt from The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years and reflect his primary literary influences, including the source of his spontaneous prose style. Uncovering a fascinating missing link in Kerouac's development as a writer, Atop an Underwood is essential reading for Kerouac fans, scholars, and critics alike.
Big Sur
Big Sur är den roman av Kerouac som går djupast ner i självavslöjandet av Kerouacs egen personlighet och av myten Kerouac och framförallt: av alkoholisten Kerouac. Det är en av världslitteraturens mest skakande och mest lysande spritskildringar, skriven av ett författargeni som befinner sig mitt i spritdemonens dödsomfamning, insnärjd i okontrollerbara paranoida ideer, riden av delirium tremens, kämpande för att behålla sitt förstånd, kämpande för att behålla sina bilder, sina minnen, sina tankar, sin själ, kämpande för sitt liv.
Tracking Jack: Following Kerouac to Desolation Peak
Tracking Jack: Following Kerouac to Desolation Peak
Kerouac: Beat Painting
A selection of paintings and drawings by Jack Kerouac, one of the literary icons of the 20th century.
Why Kerouac Matters
Legions of youthful Americans have taken "On the Road" as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. Discussing this novel, and arguing that it still matters because it lays out an alternative road map to growing up, t...
Kerouac: Selected Letters
The letters in this volume, written between 1940 and 1956, offer valuable insights onto Kerouac's family life, friendships, travels, love affairs, and literary apprenticeship. They also provide accounts of the events that inspired "On the Roa...
Kerouac on Record
He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed firs...
Kerouac on Record
He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed firs...
The Dharma Bums
Brought to you by Penguin. Jack Kerouac''s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac''s The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens...
Desolation Angels
The classic autobiographical novel, 'one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature' (Time), from acclaimed author Jack Kerouac 'If the Pulitzer Prize were given for the book that is most representative of American life, I would nominate Desolation Angels.'--Dan Wakefield, The Atlantic Desolation Angels covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life--the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac's fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London. Duluoz attempts to extricate himself from the world but fails, for one must 'live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.' Desolation Angels is quintessential Kerouac.
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of natureA witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas.Following the explosive energy of On the Road, the book that put the Beat Genration on the literary map - and Jack Kerouac on the bestseller list - comes The Dharma Bums, in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma, or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly Bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in 'yabyum', they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow.
Back Jack: Back Jack
Back Jack: Back Jack [Vinyl LP]
Scripture of the Golden Eternity
These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe. "The Scripture of the Golden Eternity is fueled by Kerouac's discerning meditation on the nat...
Lonesome Traveler
A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discovery, published in Penguin Modern Classics. As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerou...
Rub Out the Words
These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat Generation. Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, the letters provide a rare glimpse into Burroughs's psyche, revealing his...
Go
The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began ON THE ROAD, GO is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private l...
Robert Frank
Pull My Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished titled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided ...
On The Road
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make "On the Road" an inspirational work of lasting importance. Kerouac s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be Beat and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than fifty years ago.
Big Sur
'Kerouac's grittiest novel ... sensual and uninhibited' The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to 'get away to solitude again or die'. Amidst the wild beauty of the Californian landscape, Kerouac struggles to come to terms with his own myth and its malign impact upon his life. The result is a moving account of a man struggling with inner demons: blessed by great talent and cursed with an urge towards self-destruction - a path lined with double bourbons, Manhattans and scotch ...
Town and the City
'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on THE TOWN AND THE CITY Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Inspired by grief over his father'...
