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Big Sur (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

Big Sur - Jack Kerouac

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

Big Sur (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

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

Big Sur (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback)

A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California

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Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel (Kandel Lenore)(Pevná vazba)

Jack Kerouac immortalized her in his novel 'Big Sur. 'A student of Zen, she hung out with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg and was a speaker at San Francisco s Human Be-In. But Lenore Kandel was no muse or hanger-on; she was a brilliant lyric poet, often unabashedly erotic, and that s where her

Book of Haikus (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

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

The Portable Jack Kerouac (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback)

The definitive Kerouac collection-now in Penguin Classics To coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of On the Road, Penguin Classics republishes this landmark collection. The Portable Jack Kerouac made clear the ambition and accomplishment of Kerouac's 'Legend of Duluoz'-the story of his

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

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

Mexico City Blues (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

'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

On the Road (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

'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

On the Road (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

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,

Desolation Angels (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring 'one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature' (Time)-now in a new edition Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life-the period that led up to the

Lonesome Traveler (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of

Můj bratr oceán - Jack Kerouac

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

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America (McNally Dennis)(Paperback)

'A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent.'--San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac--'King of the Beats,' unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the

The Haunted Life: And Other Writings (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback)

In 1944 under circumstances that remain rather mysterious an aspiring writer named Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript title 'The Haunted Life,' a coming-of-age story set in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.Kerouac set his fictional treatment of Peter Martin against the backdrop of

Tristessa - Jack Kerouac

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,

Kniha haiku - Jack Kerouac

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

Doktor Sax - Jack Kerouac

Dílo Jacka Kerouaca lze rozdělit na romány 'ze silnice' a na romány popisující jeho dětství a dospívání v rodném Lowellu - a právě z druhé zmíněné skupiny pochází román Doktor Sax, jedno z autorových vrcholných, ale zároveň nejméně typických děl. Melancholické