Satori In Paris - Jack Kerouac

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.

Three Men - Jean Evans

Three Men at odds with themselves and society, a delinquent/a necrophile/a homosexual

EVERGREEN BLACK CAT BOOKS BC-40

SECOND PRINTING NO DATE

NEW YORK, USA

JOHNNY ROCCO-

Tough-on the outside-but plagued by his sense of sin and guilt.

WILLIAM MILLER-

Blind and lonely, obsessed with death and nature.

MARTIN BEARDSON-

Articulate homosexual, wrapped in a cocoon of weird ritual.

These brilliant personality portraits have been hailed as a new kind of psychological reporting-"biographies of emotion." Novelists and psychiatrists, critics and teachers have joined in a unanimous chorus of praise for their insight, vividness, sympathy, excellence of style.

"I found Miss Evans' book completely fascinating, and I can only admire how alive and vivid she succeeded in making the three men." Norman Mailer

"Miss Evans' book is invaluable for the teacher and student of psychology.

...(She)writes beautifully."

Erich Fromm