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Renowned for his Beat Generation novel "On the Road", Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Written by a Kerouac scholar, this work supplements a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from various sources.

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Ačkoli se Jack Kerouac proslavil především jako prozaik, psal také vynikající poezii – mnozí literární historici jsou dokonce toho názoru, že Kerouacovy básně jeho prózu co do kvality předčí. Tak či onak, je nepochybné, že jedním z vrcholů autorova básnického díla jsou jeho haiku. Kerouacův zájem o tuto japonskou básnickou formu byl hluboký a dlouhodobý; od poloviny padesátých let až do své smrti v roce 1969 si úderná trojverší zapisoval do deníků, prokládal jimi své dopisy, romány či eseje atd. Postupně přitom dospěl k vlastní podobě, tzv. „západnímu haiku“, které se nenechává omezovat přísnými formálními pravidly, ušitými na míru japonštině, přesto si z dané formy uchovává to podstatné: schopnost zachytit ve třech krátkých verších jedinečný obraz světa, „zbavený vší poetické veteše a fíglů, a přesto vzdušný a ladný jako Vivaldiho pastorála“. Kerouacova Kniha haiku, poprvé vydaná teprve po autorově smrti, přesvědčivě dokládá, že ve svém úsilí o zvládnutí zdánlivě snadné, ve skutečnosti však nesmírně obtížné formy Kerouac uspěl beze zbytku.

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An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac''s fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another. Always fixated by Neal Cassady - the Cody of the title, renamed for the book along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs - Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who would inspire much of his work.

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''A revelation'' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually running over three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and engaging translations, this anthology offers an illuminating introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form. Adam L. Kern''s new translations are accompanied here by the original Japanese and short commentaries on the poems, as well as an introduction and illustrations from the period.

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A 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.Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957, that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed, among them The Subterraneans, Big Sur, and The Dharma Bums. Kerouac died in Florida at ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.''What''s your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It''s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.''Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac''s exhilarating novel defined the new ''Beat'' generation and became the bible of the counter culture.''On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. The alienation, the restlessness, the dissatisfaction were already there waiting when Kerouac pointed out the road'' William Burroughs''Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience'' Hanif Kureishi, Independent on Sunday Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Never before published in Kerouac''s lifetime, Jack Kerouac''s Wake Up is a clear and powerful study of the life and works of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, from the author of On the Road. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robert Thurman.Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha''s royal upbringing and his father''s wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father''s palace, Siddhartha adopts a homeless life, struggles with his meditations, and eventually finds Enlightenment. Written at the end of Kerouac''s career, when he became increasingly interested in Buddhist teachings, and collected for the first time in one book, this fresh and accessible biography is both an important addition to Kerouac''s work and a valuable introduction to the world of Buddhism itself.Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957, that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed, among them The Subterraneans, Big Sur, and The Dharma ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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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.

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Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac''s seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen.This edition is transcribed from the original manuscript: hundreds of typed pages taped together by Kerouac to form a ''scroll'', published word for word as it was originally composed.Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac''s exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, On the Road is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth century''s most influential writers, Beat Generation icons William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac''s And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an electrifying true-life mystery, including afterword by James Grauerholtz in Penguin Modern Classics.This is a hardboiled crime novel, and a true story. In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the police. Later they wrote this fictionalised account of that summer - of a group of friends in wartime New York, moving through each other''s apartments, drinking, necking, talking and taking drugs and haphazardly drifting towards a bloody crime. Unpublished for years, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great writers. If you enjoyed And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, you might like Kerouac''s On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''The novel that kicked it all off''Independent''An insight into Kerouac before he went on the road and Burroughs ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak…I can feel it." In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. He wrote in his journal that he planned "to concentrate on emptiness of self, other selves, living beings, and universal self." In letters to friends he proclaimed, "Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak…I can feel it." Kerouac''s experience on Desolation Peak forms the climax of his novel The Dharma Bums and has also been depicted in part 1 of Desolation Angels and a chapter in his nonfiction book Lonesome Traveler. None of these versions offers a full, true picture, however; and for that reason, Desolation Peak is essential reading. What separates Kerouac from all other writers is the depth that he went in exploring his own consciousness, and what will prove his most enduring legacy is the record he left of that exploration, revealing the psyche of a sensitive, tortured artist grappling with himself in the ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Jack Kerouac o svém díle často hovořil jako o souvislém celku tvořícím tzv. Duluozovu legendu a právě Jack Duluoz, autorovo alter ego, stojí v tomto případě přímo v názvu knihy, takže není pochyb o tom, co, nebo lépe řečeno kdo, bude hlavním tématem. Jack Duluoz své ženě, a tím pádem i čtenáři, vypráví, čím vším si musel projít v letech 1935-46. A že toho nebylo málo: před našima očima se odvíjí dobrodružný přerod ambiciózního maloměstského fotbalisty v intelektuála omámeného New Yorkem, stojíme po jeho boku na moři za druhé světové války i ve vězení při vyšetřování vraždy. To všechno má však jediné směřování - Kerouac, totiž Duluoz, je na nejlepší cestě k tomu, aby se stal kultovním autorem Beat Generation. Citlivější čtenáři možná uslyší jeho hlas, tak naléhavé je jeho překotné vyprávění, tak živý jeho jazyk. Možná se Duluoz občas chvástá, možná občas fňuká, ale nikdy, nikdy není nudný.

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Autobiografický román Big Sur z roku 1962 patří k tomu nejlepšímu, co Jack Kerouac napsal. Existenciální a tvůrčí krize, kterou prochází jeho románové alter ego Jack Duluoz, se promítá do rytmu prózy, jejíž účinky jsou místy až hypnotické. Jack, vyčerpaný věčným flámováním a dotěrnou pozorností fanoušků i novinářů, prchá přes celé Státy až k pobřeží Tichého oceánu, do chaty skryté na dně Ratonského kaňonu u Big Sur. Sám uprostřed divoké přírody chce najít ztracenou rovnováhu a soustředění na práci. Bukolické rozjímání však brzy vystřídá transcendentní děs... Big Sur je kniha o krajnosti, o zběsilé touze po životě, o děsuplné kráse světa, ale i o bolestném střetu s prázdnotou a příliš blízké hranici, za níž číhá zoufalství a šílenství. V tomto ohledu Kerouac bravurně a osobitě navazuje na ta největší témata básnického romantismu. A v závěrečné poemě "Moře" lze zaslechnout ozvuky tradice, k níž se hlásí Eliotova "Pustá země".

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A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist thinkingFrom a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do what he wanted.This collection shows Jack at his earnest, soulful best. The writing is consistently and wonderfully Kerouacian: it is honest, reflective, heartfelt, and revealing, with great characterizations amid his self-exploration as he wrestles with his consciousness, desperate for belief.

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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, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.''Piquant writing, the best part of its flavour being ... the hunt for the big experience, a touch of Hemingway and Whitman''Guardian''Full of startling and beautiful things ... one sees, hears and feels''Sunday Times

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''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 ...

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A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac''s Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discoveryAs he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.''Full of startling and beautiful things ... one sees, hears and feels'' Sunday Times

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Román Na ceste spôsobil v Amerike konca päťdesiatych rokov kultúrny výbuch a Jack Kerouac sa stal ikonou novej, spontánnej a odtabuizovanej literatúry. Legendárna biblia bítnickej generácie je dnes jednou z najlepších kníh minulého storočia. Je generačnou výpoveďou a reakciou na spoločenský paradox svojej doby: Amerika bola síce na vrchole hospodárskej stability, no jej choroby boli čoraz vidite?nejšie. Kniha vychádza pri príležitosti 100. výročia narodenia Jacka Kerouaca. Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969) je jedným z najvýznamnejších predstavite?ov beat generation a autorom troch zbierok poézie a vyše pätnástich, často autobiografických, románov. V sedemnástich si zbalil kufre a presťahoval sa do New Yorku. Ohromujúce ve?komesto bolo explóziou nepoznaného. Kerouacovi do života vniesol celoživotnú lásku k jazzu a rozhodnutie venovať sa písaniu, no aj experimentovanie s drogami. Oddal sa tam priate?stvu s Allanom Ginsbergom a Williamom Burroughsom a vzniklo nové literárne hnutie: beat generation. V Kerouacovom diele nájdeme silné ovplyvnenie katolíckou vierou, budhistickými meditáciami i jazzovými improvizáciami. Napriek jeho túžbe po otvorenosti a necenzurovanej spontánnosti zažíval obdobia ťažkých depresií a osamelosti. Na následky alkoholom podlomeného zdravia zomrel vo veku štyridsaťsedem rokov.

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In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to ''get away to solitude again or die'', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jack Duluoz wrestles with doubt, alcohol dependency and his urge towards self-destruction, is one of Kerouac''s most personal and searingly honest works. Ending with the poem ''Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur'', it shows a man coming down from his hedonistic youth and trying to come to terms with fame, the world and himself.

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''One of the most true, comic and grizzly journeys in American literature'' Time Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California to Mexico, London to Paris and on to opium-ridden Tangiers, Kerouac chronicles their poetry, partying, mountain vigils and spiritual contemplation with unsurpassable energy and humanity. ''Nerve-jangling, sentimental, sincere and funny'' Sunday Times

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Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, ''my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover''. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of his childhood: playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to church, witnessing life and death on the street corners. Written when he was staying with William Burroughs in Mexico in 1952, Doctor Sax was Kerouac''s favourite of all his books: a dark, vivid and magical evocation of a boy''s vibrant inner life.

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Útlou prózu Podzemníci prý Jack Kerouac napsal v benzedrinovém rauši za tři dny a noci. Ať už je to pravda, nebo ne, je nepochybné, že kniha dokonale naplňuje autorovu představu "spontánního psaní", stylu, který Kerouac dle vlastních slov "sám objevil pro narativní umění; autor v něm klopýtá přes sebe sama, aby odvyprávěl svůj příběh, úplně bez dechu, jako když hospodský vypravěč vrazí do nacpaného lokálu a převypráví, co se zrovna stalo, a jakmile vyprávění dokončí, už nemá právo se k němu vrátit a smazat, co jeho ruka napsala." Stejně nepochybné je i to, že tato prostá, smutná, k nezdaru odsouzená love story vypravěče a černé krásky Mardou zasazená do San Franciska na počátku padesátých let 20. století patří k vrcholům autorova díla - mnozí literární kritici a historici ji dokonce označují za vůbec nejlepší Kerouacův text.

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První a nejdojemnější kapitola fiktivního Kerouacova životopisu, "Duluozovy legendy", kterou psal v podstatě celý život, protože látkou i palivem jeho psaní vždy byly vlastní, intenzivně prožívané zkušenosti. Vize Gerarda jsou tím, co si Jack Kerouac - či jeho prozaické alter ego Duluoz - pamatuje o svém bratrovi Gerardovi; je to sled výjevů, vizí či vidění, detailů přetvořených v básnickou pravdu, střípků viděných očima dítěte, matných vzpomínek na milovanou, důvěrně blízkou, andělskou bytost, kterou odvedla z jeho života smrtelná choroba, když bylo Gerardovi devět let a Jackovi pouhé čtyři roky. Knihu napsal Kerouac během dvou týdnů v roce 1956, ve stejném roce, kdy rozepsal Anděly zoufalství a dokončil Tristessu, a jako by v ní utíkal ke vzpomínkám na dětskou čistotu a nevinnost, na šťastná léta prožitá po boku milujícího a milovaného bratra, kterého vidí jako svého prvního učitele.

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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'' Guardian This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac''s own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac''s most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the strangers he meets and the all-night conversations he enjoys in seedy bars in Paris and Brittany, to the moment in a cab he experiences Buddhism''s satori - a feeling of sudden awakening - Kerouac''s affecting and revolutionary writing transports the reader.Published at the height of his fame, Satori in Paris is a hectic tale of philosophy, identity and the powerful strangeness of travel.

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Je silvestr roku 1938, v Lowellu v Massachusetts chumelí a parta šestnáctiletých kluků vesele a trochu nejistě kráčí na taneční zábavu. Pro jednoho z nich bude tenhle večer osudový: Jack Duluoz, autorovo alter ego, totiž v tančírně potká sedmnáctiletou Maggie Cassidyovou. Touhle scénou začíná útlý román, který Jack Kerouac napsal v roce 1953 a líčí v něm historii první lásky na maloměstě a hrdinův první šok a okouzlení z oslnivého New Yorku. Prostý příběh prvního vzplanutí je psán typickým Kerouakovým překotným stylem s chaotickou interpunkcí a "jazzovou" větnou stavbou, balancujícím na pomezí prózy a poezie. Autobiografický text o nesmělém, nezkušeném vzájemném poznávání a různících se snech dvou mladičkých lidí vznikl už v roce 1953, ale nakladatele našel teprve o šest let později, když už se jeho autor vezl na vlně slávy po vydání svého nejslavnějšího opusu Na cestě.

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Jako většina děl Jacka Kerouaca je i útlá próza Tristessa založena na autorových zážitcích a spoluutváří onu "velkou knihu autorova života", vedle tak slavných románů jako Na cestě, Dharmoví tuláci, Andělé zoufalství či Vize Codyho. Předobrazem hlavní hrdinky knihy, indiánské dívky Tristessy, byla prostitutka a narkomanka Esperanza, s níž se Kerouac seznámil v půli padesátých let 20. století při jednom ze svých pobytů v Mexico City a s níž navázal bolestný, k neúspěchu odsouzený vztah. Kerouac líčí klíčové okamžiky jejich setkávání a míjení v intenzivních obrazech na pomezí snu a skutečnosti; k přízračné atmosféře přispívá i to, že se události zaznamenané v knize se povětšinou odehrávají v noci. S tím kontrastuje fakt, že důležitou roli v textu hraje Kerouacovo studium buddhismu a usilování o osvícení - probuzení… Ale zatímco první část knihy připomíná sen, ze kterého je možné se probudit, ve druhé části se snová atmosféra prohloubí až k noční můře spolu s tím, jak s vypravěčem sledujeme úpadek jeho hrdinky i nevyhnutelný konec jejich vztahu.

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Jack Kerouac''s Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics editionOn the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.

Objev podobné jako On the Road - Jack Kerouac

''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''s death and gripped by determination to write the Great American Novel, he draws largely on his own New England childhood.

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''She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"''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. ''A narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums'' Allen Ginsberg

Objev podobné jako Tristessa - Jack Kerouac

''I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday''Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac''s most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked ''choruses'', it takes in life, death, spirituality, jazz improvisation, memory, fantasies and dreams, all infused with the rhythm of the blues, to create a surreal and all-encompassing epic. ''A spontaneous bop prosody and original classic literature'' Allen Ginsberg''A jazz poet. His sentences frequently move into tempestuous sweeps and whorls and sometimes they have something of the rich music of Gerard Manley Hopkins or Dylan Thomas'' The New York Herald Tribune

Objev podobné jako Mexico City Blues - Jack Kerouac

'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob Dylan Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.

Objev podobné jako On the Road - Jack Kerouac

The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works.Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan''s most beloved modern poets, famous for his "free-verse" haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and journals—compiled by his best friend and biographer Sumita Oyama and elegantly translated by William Scott Wilson.Santoka was a literary prodigy, but a notoriously disorganized human being. By his own admission, he was incapable of doing anything other than wandering the countryside and writing verses. Although Santoka married and had a son, he devoted his life to poetry, studying Zen, drinking sake and wandering the length and breadth of the Japanese islands on foot, as a mendicant monk.The poet''s life alternated between long periods of solitary retreat and restless travel, influenced by his tragic childhood. When not on the road, he lived in simple grass huts supported by friends and family. Santoka was a lively conversationalist who was often found so drunk he could only make it home with the help of a friendly neighbor or passerby. But above all, throughout ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...' Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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A big story in a tiny book! This pocket-sized book tells the full story of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, as he ventures from Halloween Town to discover Christmas Town and does his best to capture and spread the spirit of Christmas. Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King! Follow Jack Skellington on his nightmarish journey into Christmas Town and back through the pages of this tiny storybook. A complete and faithful retelling of the iconic story of Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, and loaded with art from the beloved 1993 film, this unique collector’s item is the perfect gift for Halloween, Christmas, and year-round. TINY SIZE: At less than two inches tall, Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Tiny Book of Jack Skellington makes a great stocking stuffer, novelty gift, or decor on a shelf or desk STUNNING ART: Filled with gorgeous art, the world of Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas comes to life PERFECT AS AN ORNAMENT: The ribbon bookmark doubles as a hanger to let you use this tiny book as an ornament or decoration; the sturdy slipcase turns a delightful book into a treasured keepsake. OFFICIALLY LICENSED: Created in collaboration with ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Tento v češtině dosud nevydaný román je založen na autorových vzpomínkách na rodný Lowell. Zároveň se z kontextu jeho díla poněkud vymyká, protože Kerouac zde opouští svou oblíbenou a obvyklou kronikářskou polohu a vytváří tajemnou, fabulovanou prózu, v níž se vzpomínky prolínají se sny. Doktor Sax bývá označován za nejlepší Kerouacovu knihu.

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V polovině 50. let podnikl Kerouac s básníkem Garym Snyderem výstup na kalifornskou horu Matternorn. Krom setkání s přírodou, jež ho později inspirovalo k pobytu na hoře Desolation Peak, o kterém píše v Andělech zoufalství, se tato cesta stala i setkáním s buddhismem, jež mu Snyder zprostředkoval. Protikladem této "duchovní roviny" je líčení divokého městského života. V něm se objevuje další z Kerouacových přátel, Allen Ginsberg, a na veřejném vystoupení čte svoje Kvílení.

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Kerouac si po dlouhou dobu zaznamenával po probuzení své sny, vždy co nejrychleji, ve snaze vyloučit rozumovou korekturu snové látky. Soubor záznamů snů přináší tento pozoruhodný titul. Autorovy životní zážitky se tu předvádí z nového úhlu a postavy, které známe z Kerouacových románů, se nám přibližují skrze snovou optiku.

Objev podobné jako Kniha snů - Jack Kerouac

Andělé zoufalství patří k vrcholům díla Jacka Kerouaca a zároveň k autorovým knihám nejtypičtějším. Kerouac tu navazuje na kultovní romány Na cestě a Dharmoví tuláci, vypráví o svých blízkých přátelích Allenu Ginsbergovi, Nealu Cassadym, Gregory Corsovi či Williamu Burroughsovi, o zrodu beat generation, o divokých večírcích a neméně divokých básnických čteních i o splynutí s přírodou uprostřed velehor, o putování Amerikou, Mexikem či Marokem, o sexu, drogách, jazzu - a především o nutkavé potřebě nalézt duchovní rozměr lidského bytí, ať už v zen-buddhismu či v katolickém mysticismu nebo v psaní samotném. To vše činí svým jedinečným stylem, pro nějž razil název "spontánní próza" a jejž tu dotáhl k dokonalosti, stylem, který připomíná nespoutaná jazzová sóla a místy dosahuje až magického účinku.

Objev podobné jako Andělé zoufalství - Jack Kerouac

Kerouac''s last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy.''Pic'', or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to live with another relative, his older brother, Slim, comes to rescue him. Together they hitch to New York City and, eventually, all the way to California, encountering hardship, kindness, music, love and danger as they go.

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Dobrá bloncka je soubor různorodých textů, který rekapituluje témata, ke kterým se Kerouac vracel, a to různými formami: beletristicky i žurnalisticky. Nacházíme v něm nepublikované povídky a prozaické fragmenty, publicistické texty o beatnické generaci, o sportu, o literatuře, o jazzu aj. Pestrost textů se odráží i v pestrosti překladatelských přístupů - na knize se podílela řada překladatelů, kteří už se v Argu v minulosti s Kerouacem potkali. Svazek uvádí předmluva básníka Roberta Creeleyho.

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Kniha snů zaujímá v celku Kerouacova díla zvláštní postavení: setkáváme se v ní sice s autorem samotným i s postavami, které známe z jeho ostatních próz, vše je však nahlíženo prismatem snu; tento experimentální román totiž sestává ze zápisů snů, jež Kerouac pořídil v letech 1952-1960. Kerouacovo "spontánní psaní" je tu snad ještě spontánnější než obvykle, jelikož se osvobozuje od každodenní reality a nechává se omezovat pouze autorovým nevědomím, respektive tím, co je z něj autor schopen a ochoten zveřejnit. Onen surový básnický materiál ovšem zpracovává suverénní stylista, a výsledný text tak nabývá prazvláštní, univerzální působivosti. Řečeno se samotným Kerouacem: "Každonoční snění všech lidí na světě spojuje lidstvo (…) a je také důkazem, že svět je skutečně transcendentální."

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The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realizes how sheltered his upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his youth, he struggles to determine what might lead to an intellectually authentic life. The Haunted Life is ultimately a meditation on intellectual truth, male friendship and the desire for movement - all themes that would dominate Kerouac's later work.

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Dosud nevydaný text z pozůstalosti Jacka Kerouaca, jeho první rozsáhlejší dílo. Kerouac ho napsal na základě svých zkušeností ze služby u obchodního námořnictva. Vydavatelé jeho text doplnili řadou dalších materiálů - tematicky a časově souvisejícími prozaickými fragmenty a také dobovou korespondencí s přítelem Sebastianem Sampasem, básníkem, která obsahuje Kerouacovy komentáře k vlastnímu psaní a řadu dalších prozaických i básnických pokusů.

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A reproduction of Kerouac''s original 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road" offers insight into the writer''s thematic vision and narrative voice as influenced by the American literary, musical, and visual arts of the post-World War II period.

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A highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consist of 17 syllables, usually divided among three lines. This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488–1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Faubion Bowers provides a Foreword and many informative notes to the poems.

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Outsider Classics is Dead Ink''s resurrection ground for the strange, the silenced, and the outcast. This series exhumes lost literary voices that were ahead of their time to restore them to the cult status they always deserved. From forgotten masterpieces to once-censored provocations, each title is a reaction against the canon curated for readers who want to stray into the margins and away from the mainstream. ''Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue.'' Fifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish her boyfriend John can catch in Yelapa, Mexico. She and John, who introduced her to Beckett, Kafka, Joyce, and Dostoevsky, are writing a novel together. Before she can leave for Guadalajara where she plans to deliver her baby, she goes into labor three months early, and the baby is stillborn. She turns sixteen soon after and decides to head north. Jan Kerouac, the only child of Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac, published her autobiographical novel Baby Driver in 1981. Unacknowledged by her father, she is haunted by the absence of his love. With a graceful, sometimes disturbing detachment and intense lyricism, she explores ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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In this fun Japanese children''s book, kids will learn to create haiku—elegant and simplistic Japanese poems.Haiku is a uniquely Japanese form of poetry that uses vivid words and imagery to capture a feeling or a moment in just three lines. Short but powerful, haiku poems are easy and fun to write and share with your friends. Haiku has become increasingly popular in school curriculums around the world, particularly among teachers introducing students to the art of poetry as well as Asian history and heritage. The activities in this haiku-for-kids book will show you how to create haiku and will help you to think up meaningful words and images with which you can write beautiful poetry. Write Your Own Haiku For Kids introduces four styles of haiku to readers with clear explanations and numerous examples. This book includes chapters on: Your first haiku—how to get started writing this classic form of poetry Haiku about Nature—a traditional element in haikuHaibun—Haiku with a short storyHaiga—Haiku with a drawingRenga—Haiku that you write together with friendsThe study and creation of haiku is a great way to have fun with both writing and reading poetry while exploring remarkable aspects of Japanese culture.

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Updated and expanded edition of the fullest ever collective investigation into Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders.This volume collects not just all the key factual evidence but also 20 different arguments as to the identity of Jack the Ripper, such as that advanced by Patricia Cornwell. Contributions are from the world''s leading Ripperologists, including William Beadle, Melvyn Fairclough, Martin Fido, Shirley Harrison, James Tully and Colin Wilson. The identity of Jack the Ripper has plagued professional historians, criminologists, writers and amateur enthusiasts. The many suspects include Montague John Druitt, Walter Sickert, Aaron Kosminski, Michael Ostrog, William Henry Bury, Dr Tumblety and James Maybrick. The only certainty is that Ripperologist have not found an invididual on whom they can all agree. The essays are supported by a detailed chronology, extensive bibliography and filmography.

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On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.

Objev podobné jako On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: ‘a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums’.

Objev podobné jako Tristessa - Jack Kerouac