Satori in Paris
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Grove Press |
Publication date | 1966 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 118 pp |
| Preceded by |
Desolation Angels (1965) |
| Followed by |
Vanity of Duluoz (1968) |
Satori in Paris is a 1966 novella by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It is a short, autobiographical tale of Kerouac's trip 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.
References
- 1966. Satori in Paris, ISBN 0-394-17437-2
- 1982. Satori in Paris, Granada Publishing, ISBN 0-586-05545-2
- 1988. Satori in Paris & Pic, ISBN 0-8021-3061-5
- 1991. Satori in Paris, Flamingo, ISBN 0-586-09118-1
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