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Cette vaste saga suit le voyage de vie d'un artiste à travers l'Amérique et le monde, une exploration profonde de la liberté et de la quête de sens à travers le mouvement constant. Elle capture l'esprit de la Beat Generation, offrant des aperçus profonds sur l'âme d'un individu créatif. Plongez dans un tourbillon de jazz, de drogues et de réflexions philosophiques.

Atop an Underwood
Sur la route
The town and the city
Die Verblendung des Duluoz
Les Souterrains
Visions of Cody

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  • Visions of Cody

    • 464pages
    • 17 heures de lecture
    3,6(3599)Évaluer

    Kerouac's classic fictional tribute to Neal Cassady. Many years before its first unabridged publication, 'Visions of Cody' became an underground classic. Written by Kerouac at his creative zenith, the book is a celebration of the life of Neal Cassady, his great friend and inspiration. Appearing here as Cody Pomeray, Cassady was also immortalised as Dean Moriarty in 'On the Road'. The son of a drunken Denver drop-out, brought up homeless and motherless during the Depression, Cassady lived his life raw -- hustling in pool halls, stealing cars for marathon joy rides across the States, living wild and penniless amongst society's misfits and outcasts. He left a sizzling reputation in his wake, becoming the insane Beat Demon of San Francisco. Through him Kerouac created one of the few lasting heroes of 20th-century literature and established himself in the great tradition of American letters.

    Visions of Cody

  • Les Souterrains

    • 176pages
    • 7 heures de lecture
    3,7(13436)Évaluer

    Une brève et triste histoire d'amour : Mardou, une petite Noire, traîne à San Francisco avec les beatniks. Elle aime Léo Percepied, un ancien matelot, qui ne lui adresse que des rebuffades : celui-ci voudrait être admis dans la bande des " Souterrains ", qui mènent la nuit une vie folle et sauvage, mais c'est en vain. L'idylle sordide et magnifique de Mardou et Léo se déroule dans un univers de beuveries, de querelles et parfois d'extase.

    Les Souterrains

  • The town and the city

    • 512pages
    • 18 heures de lecture
    3,9(3236)Évaluer

    The town in this tale is Galloway, Masachusetts, birthplace of the five sons and three daughters of the Martin family in the early 1900s. The city is New York, the heaving melting pot which lures them all in search of futures and identity.

    The town and the city

  • Atop an Underwood

    • 272pages
    • 10 heures de lecture
    3,6(6203)Évaluer

    Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 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 more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two, ranging from stories and poems to plays and parts of novels, including an excerpt from his 1943 merchant marine novel, 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. Readers will also find in these works the source of Kerouac's 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.

    Atop an Underwood

  • Tristessa

    Facsimile of 1960 Edition

    • 98pages
    • 4 heures de lecture
    4,4(3)Évaluer

    Set in Mexico City, this novella explores the poignant relationship between Jack Kerouac and a Mexican prostitute named Esperanza, whom he renames Tristessa. Through this character, Kerouac delves into themes of love, longing, and the sadness of existence, reflecting the Beat Generation's ethos. The narrative captures the essence of their connection, blending personal experience with a vivid portrayal of the city's atmosphere. This 2018 reprint faithfully reproduces the original 1960 edition, preserving Kerouac's unique voice and style.

    Tristessa

  • Doctor Sax

    3,2(383)Évaluer

    Beautifully rejacketed, Doctor Sax is one of Kerouac’s best books – a vivid, nostalgic tale of one boy’s extraordinary childhood. Of all his books, Doctor Sax was the one Jack Kerouac loved the most. He began writing it in 1948, but wrote the greater part of it in 1952, when he was staying in Mexico with William Burroughs. Told through the character of Kerouac’s fictional alter ego, Jack Duluoz, the novel tells the story of his extraordinary childhood in Massachusetts. A clever and rebellious boy, playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to the movies, reading pulp comics and watching cartoons, Jack creates an imaginary world of strange, new possibilities. Within this world lies the weird and wonderful Doctor Sax…

    Doctor Sax

  • Visions of Gerard

    • 112pages
    • 4 heures de lecture
    4,2(73)Évaluer

    'The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious eyes' Described 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 Kerouac's 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, it's the story of an almost divine, Buddha-like child wracked with sickness and suffering' Guardian

    Visions of Gerard

  • Sartori à Paris

    3,3(182)Évaluer

    Venu dans notre pays pour rechercher l'origine de son nom véritable, Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac, le chef de file du mouvement beat, s'aperçoit de retour en Floride qu'il a reçu, au cours de ce voyage, une sorte d'illumination, un satori. Ne sachant à quel épisode précis attribuer cette révélation, il va revivre avec le lecteur ces dix journées passées en France. Journées où abondent les situations inattendues, et où l'on sent ce besoin de sympathie et de chaleur humaine que Kerouac manifestait en maintes occasions.

    Sartori à Paris

  • The Subterraneans. Pic

    • 192pages
    • 7 heures de lecture

    Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classic, On The Road. Centering on the tempestous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox--two denizens of the 1950s San Francsico underground--The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and dark rooms, of artists, of visionaries,

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  • The Dharma bums

    3,9(2426)Évaluer

    A deluxe edition of Kerouac's 1958 classic Published just one year after On The Road, this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    The Dharma bums

  • Maggie Cassidy (Original Manuscript)

    • 284pages
    • 10 heures de lecture
    4,0(2)Évaluer

    Set in 1950s Lowell, Massachusetts, this novel offers a poignant reflection on Jack Kerouac's high school years. It initially faced controversy due to its candid language, leading to its censorship and subsequent revisions. The original manuscript, containing Kerouac’s unfiltered expressions, was long suppressed until Devault-Graves uncovered it. This edition restores the text to its complete, uncensored form, allowing readers to experience the authentic voice Kerouac intended, capturing the essence of youth and rebellion in a changing literary landscape.

    Maggie Cassidy (Original Manuscript)

  • Tristessa

    • 80pages
    • 3 heures de lecture
    3,7(5745)Évaluer

    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 Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico city, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control.

    Tristessa

  • Vanity of Duluoz

    An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

    • 301pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    3,9(58)Évaluer

    Vanity of Duluoz is a key volume in Jack Kerouac's lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. With the same tender humor and intoxicating wordplay he brought to his masterpieces On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac takes his alter ego from the football fields of small-town New England to the playing fields and classrooms of Horace Mann and Columbia, out to sea on a merchant freighter plying the sub-infested waters of the North Atlantic during World War II, and back to New York, where his friends are the writers who would one day become known as the Beat generation and where he publishes his first novel.

    Vanity of Duluoz

  • Les Anges Vagabonds

    • 253pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    4,0(11002)Évaluer

    Un jour, à Mexico, j'ai emmené chez moi cinq fumeurs de " thé " qui me vendaient la camelote, mais ils se révélèrent être des voleurs. Ils me chipèrent mon couteau scout pendant que j'avais le dos tourné. Je ne dis rien, bien que je m'en fusse aperçu. A un moment donné, le chef est resté trente secondes bien sonnées derrière moi sans ouvrir la bouche et l'idée m'est alors venue qu'il allait me poignarder... Traduit de l'anglais par Michel Deutsch

    Les Anges Vagabonds

  • Maggie Cassidy

    3,6(4456)Évaluer

    'A very unique cat-a French-Canadian Hinayana Buddhist Beat Catholic savant'Allen Ginsberg Through publishers stopped Maggie Cassidy'sJack Dulouz and On the Road'sSal Paradise form sharing the same name, Kerouac meant the books to be two parts of the same life. While On the Roadmade Paradise (and Kerouac) a hero of the disaffected and restless for generations to come, Maggie Cassidyis an affectionate portrait of the teenager that made the man - of friendship and first love - growing up in a New England mill town. Dulouz is a high school athletics and football star who meet Maggie Cassidy and begins a devoted, inconstant, tender adolescent love affair. It is one of the most sustained, poetic pieces of Kerouac's 'spontaneous prose'.

    Maggie Cassidy

  • Big Sur

    • 192pages
    • 7 heures de lecture
    3,9(32603)Évaluer

    '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 ...

    Big Sur