The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Jack Kerouac

ISBN 10: 0143039601 / ISBN 13: 9780143039600

Edité par Penguin Classics, 2006

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One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0143039601
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780143039600
• Reliure: Softcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 9 onces
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Published just one year after "On The Road", this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.

À propos de l?auteur

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.