Satori in Paris
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| Satori in Paris | |
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| Author | Jack Kerouac |
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| 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 novel 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. It should be noted that although Kerouac was fluent in a form of Quebec 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.
[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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