Satori in Paris

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Satori in Paris
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Author Jack Kerouac
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher
Released 1966
Media Type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-394-17437-2
Preceded by Desolation Angels
(1965)
Followed by Vanity of Duluoz
(1968)

Satori in Paris, a 1966 novel by Jack Kerouac.

A short, Semi-autobiographical tale of a man who travels to Paris, then Brittany to do research on his genealogy. Kerouac relates his trip in a tumbledown fashion as a lonesome traveller. 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 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.

It is out of print and currently available only as a single volume with his novel Pic.

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Books by Jack Kerouac
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other WritingsVisions of GerardDoctor SaxThe Town and the CityMaggie CassidyVanity of DuluozOn the RoadVisions of CodyThe SubterraneansTristessaThe Dharma BumsLonesome TravelerDesolation AngelsBig SurSatori in ParisPicOld Angel MidnightBook of DreamsGood Blonde & OthersOrpheus EmergedBook of SketchesAnd the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished)