Satori in Paris

Satori in Paris is a 1966 novella by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It is a short, semi-autobiographical tale of a man who travels to Paris, then Brittany, to research his genealogy. Kerouac relates his trip in a tumbledown fashion as a lonesome traveler. Little is said about the research that he does, and much more about his interactions with the French people he meets. Although Kerouac was fluent in a form of Quebec French called Joual, Kerouac's French would not only have seemed heavily accented, but would also have contained hundreds of odd words that would mark him as a foreigner to the French.

Character Key ^[1]

"Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same personae names in each work." ^[2]

References

1. ^ Sandison, Daivd. Jeck Kerouac: An Illustrated Biography. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. 1999
2. ^ Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. London and New York: Penguin Books Ltd. 1993.

• 1966. Satori in Paris, ISBN 0-394-17437-2
• 1988. Satori in Paris & Pic, ISBN 0-8021-3061-5
• 1991. Satori in Paris, Re-issue by Flamingo (NO LONGER OUT OF PRINT), ISBN 0586091181