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The Lonely Wanderer. Tristessa. Satori in Paris

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The Lonely Wanderer. Tristessa. Satori in Paris
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Jack Kerouac (Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, 1922–1969) was a writer of an era, a paradoxical writer who sowed the wind and, before he knew it, reaped a storm that hasn't abated to this day. Born into an impoverished family of French aristocrats, he became the voice of protesting American youth and introduced young American intellectuals to Buddhism. Critics dismissed him with disdain, while nonconformist readers embraced him. Whatever Jack the Rebel wrote, he always spoke—with rapture and passion—about himself and his generation. A generation that sought, by any means necessary, to escape the familiar, philistine, comfortable existence into a world of absolute and, consequently, unattainable freedom. And in this context, it doesn't matter so much what he tells this time—the story of his complicated relationship with a "woman of the night" from Mexico City or his journey from Paris to Brittany—because it's all a chronicle (or, if you prefer, annals) of the Beat generation. Brilliant losers who challenged forces that couldn't be defeated—and, of course, losers, but losers so brilliantly and brilliantly that such defeat is worth another victory.
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