DIARIOS 1947-1954 - MUNDO SOPLADO POR EL VIENTO
Por primera vez traducidos al español, estos Diarios que se extienden entre 1947 y 1954 están conformados por las notas que Jack Kerouac escribió para sus primeros trabajos, los primeros bocetos para En el camino, crónicas de viajes.
JACK KEROUAC
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouack, más conocido como Jack Kerouac, fue un novelista estadounidense, pionero de la Generación Beat junto a sus amigos y también escritores William S. Burroughs y Allen Ginsberg. Es reconocido por su prosa espontánea.
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KEROUAC JACK
Bornin Lowell, Massachusetts, The United StatesMarch 12, 1922
DiedOctober 21, 1969
InfluencesNeal Cassady, Thomas Wolfe, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Genet, Henry ...more
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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City 1950 , and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes.
Kerouac is recognized for his style of stream of consciousness spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, travel, promiscuity, life in New York City, Buddhism, drugs, and poverty. He became an underground celebrity and, with other Beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. He has a lasting legacy, greatly influencing many of the cultural icons of the 1960s, including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Garcia and The Doors.
In 1969, at the age of 47, Kerouac died from an abdominal hemorrhage caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Since then, his literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published.
