Satori in Paris
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| Satori in Paris | |
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| Author(s) | Jack Kerouac |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Grove Press |
| Publication date | 1966 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 118 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | Desolation Angels (1965) |
| Followed by | Vanity of Duluoz (1968) |
Satori in Paris is a 1966 novella by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It is a short, semi-autobiographical tale of a man who travels to Paris, then Brittany, to research his genealogy. Kerouac relates his trip in a tumbledown fashion as a lonesome traveler. Little is said about the research that he does, and much more about his interactions with the French people he meets. Although Kerouac was fluent in a form of Quebec French called Joual, Kerouac's French would not only have seemed heavily accented, but would also have contained hundreds of odd words that would mark him as a foreigner to the French.
[edit] Character Key [1]
"Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same personae names in each work." [2]
| Real-life person | Character name |
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| Jack Kerouac | Jack Duluoz |
[edit] References
- ^ Sandison, Daivd. Jeck Kerouac: An Illustrated Biography. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. 1999
- ^ Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. London and New York: Penguin Books Ltd. 1993.
- 1966. Satori in Paris, ISBN 0-394-17437-2
- 1988. Satori in Paris & Pic, ISBN 0-8021-3061-5
- 1991. Satori in Paris, Re-issue by Flamingo (NO LONGER OUT OF PRINT), ISBN 0586091181
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