Satori in Paris
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| Author | Jack Kerouac |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
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| Released | 1966 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-394-17437-2 |
| Preceded by | Desolation Angels (1965) |
| Followed by | Vanity of Duluoz (1968) |
Satori in Paris, a 1966 novel by Jack Kerouac.
A short, Semi-autobiographical tale of a man who travels to Paris, then Brittany to do research on his genealogy. Kerouac relates his trip in a tumbledown fashion as a lonesome traveller. Little is said about the research that he does, and much more about his interactions with the French people he meets. It should be noted that although Kerouac was fluent in a form of French called Joual, Kerouac's French would not only have been heavily accented, but would also have contained hundreds of odd words that would mark him as a foreigner to the French.
It is out of print and currently available only as a single volume with his novel Pic.
[edit] References
- 1966. Satori in Paris, ISBN 0-394-17437-2
- 1988. Satori in Paris & Pic, ISBN 0-8021-3061-5
| Books by Jack Kerouac |
| Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings | Visions of Gerard | Doctor Sax | The Town and the City | Maggie Cassidy | Vanity of Duluoz | On the Road | Visions of Cody | The Subterraneans | Tristessa | The Dharma Bums | Lonesome Traveler | Desolation Angels | Big Sur | Satori in Paris | Pic | Old Angel Midnight | Book of Dreams | Good Blonde & Others | Orpheus Emerged | Book of Sketches | And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished) |
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