EVERGREEN BLACK CAT BOOKS BC-135
GROVE PRESS
NEW YORK, USA
1ST PRINTING 1966
JACK KEROUAC'S
SATORI IN PARIS
TAKES YOU ON A JET-AGE ODYSSEY INTO ANCIENT FRANCE
"SATORI" IS THE JAPANESE WORD FOR "SUDDEN ILLUMINATION." "SUDDEN AWAKENING." OR SIMPLY "KICK IN THE EYE." KEROUAC TRAVELS WITH DAZZLING SPEED THROUGH DOZENS OF ADVENTURES ON THIS JOURNEY TO TRACE HIS SURNAME - ANY ONE OF WHICH, IN RETROSPECT, MAY BE HIS "SATORI."
HERE IS HIS ENCOUNTER WITH A FADED FRENCH BEAUTY IN A MONT-PARNASSE GANGSTER BAR . . . HIS SURREALISTIC CONVERSATION WITH HIS BRETON NAMESAKE. A MAN WITH A NOSE "AS GLEEFUL AS A RAZOR" . . . HIS NIGHT IN THE BAR OF THE GENTLE LADY . . . HIS EXPERIENCES WITH PARISIAN BOOKIES AND CAB DRIVERS.
THIS IS A BRIGHT ADDITION TO THE KEROUAC CANON.
