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W połowie lat pięćdziesiątych Jack Kerouac, katolik, przeżył fascynację buddyzmem. Zainteresowanie to wyraźnie wpłynęło na jego duchowość
Kerouaca i Ginsberga — ikony kultury, najsłynniejszych przedstawicieli „beat generation” — łączyła wrażliwość artystyczna i głęboka przyjaźń. Dzięki ogromnemu zbiorowi korespondencji przyjaźń ta ukaz
An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays.
'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
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-yea
Latem 1944 roku Nowym Jorkiem wstrząsa informacja o morderstwie – młody Lucien Carr śmiertelnie rani o dziesięć lat starszego Davida Kammerera. Pierwszymi, którzy dowiadują się o zbrodni, są: William
The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian,
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, anguis
On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation. 'What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessi
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
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.