Jack Kerouac

Orpheus Emerged is a novella written by Jack Kerouac in 1945 when he was at Columbia University. The novella was discovered after his death and published in 2002. Orpheus Emerged chronicles the passions, conflicts, and dreams of a group of bohemians searching for truth while studying at a university. Kerouac wrote the …

Matkalla on yhdysvaltalaisen kirjailijan Jack Kerouacin vuonna 1957 julkaistu romaani, joka perustuu hänen ystäviensä kanssa poikki Amerikan tekemäänsä matkaan. Sitä pidetään toisen maailmansodan jälkeisen beat-sukupolven ja 1960-luvun vastakulttuurin keskeisenä teoksena. Se kuvaa elämää, jonka taustana on jazz, …

Old Angel Midnight is a long narrative poem by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It was culled from five notebooks spanning from 1956 to 1959, while Kerouac was fully absorbed by his studies of Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy. Kerouac initially experimented with Old Angel Midnight in 1953 in his diary titled …

Mexico City Blues is a poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959 composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. Written between 1954 and 1957, the poem the product of Kerouac's spontaneous prose, his Buddhism, and his disappointment at his failure to publish a novel between 1950's The Town and the City and 1957's On the Road.