Jack Kerouac – författare

"Välkommen nyöversättning. En helt annan slags upplevelse!" Magnus Eriksson, Sydsvenskan "Litterär galenskap så som den skrevs. Tonsäker översättning!" Gunnar Balgård, Västerbottens-kuriren "Vesterlund kommer nära författarens ursprungliga prosaflöde. Det är utmärkt!" Thomas Kjellgren, Smålandsposten "Utmärkt översättning... underbart att äntligen få ta del av ett manus om stympades så kraftigt av femtiotalets moraltanter och gubbar!" Elisabeth Brännström, Tidningen Kulturen Jack Kerouacs roman På väg – originalversionen. För första gången på svenska. Översättning av Andreas Vesterlund, efterord av Per Planhammar. Äntligen är den här. Jack Kerouacs omåttligt inflytelserika roman On the Road i sin ursprungliga version – så som han faktiskt skrev den. Tidigare svenska utgåvor har varit baserade på den förenklade och censurerade text det amerikanska förlaget valde att publicera när boken första gången kom ut 1957. Kerouac själv var bedrövad – trots det stora genombrott boken skänkte honom. Det var nämligen inte hans text som gått i tryck, det var något annat, något förvanskat, något han knappt ville kännas vid. Rimlighetens kvarnar malde sedan på långsamt men obevekligt och till sist kom så – efter mer än femtio år – boken ut i sin korrekta oförstörda utgåva på samma amerikanska förlag, en utgåva som helt och hållet följer författarens manuskript. Hade Kerouac fortfarande levt hade han sträckt en segernäve i luften. On the Road / På väg är den berömda romanen om att kasta loss, om att ge sig iväg, om att ta sig dit omständigheterna leder en, hela tiden med att öppet yrvaket sinne och en alert livsutforskande vilja att ta reda på vad omvärlden (i detta fall: hela USA) inrymmer och vad själva livet går ut på. Det är starten på en hel genre, föregångaren till alla road movies, alla ge-järnet-nu-drar-vi-försök, alla full-fart-mot-horisonten-uppror. Och den är fortfarande oöverträffad. Speciellt nu när vi får läsa den i sitt rätta skick. Det amerikanska förlaget ansåg att boken var för omoralisk och rakt på sak och satte en redaktör till att skriva om den. Idag är det groteskt att se vad som gjordes, oräkneliga ändringar, och än märkligare är det att det är den förvanskade versionen som alltid tidigare gått i tryck på svenska, i två tidigare översättningar som båda kommit i flera upplagor. Redan bokens inledande mening, när författaren berättar att han för första gången mötte romanens huvudperson Neal/Dean "not long after my father died" ändrades av den manipulativa redaktören till oigenkänneliga "not long after my wife and I split up". Varför? Ja, det kan man grubbla över. Hursomhelst utsattes romanen för en brutal misshandel som rimligen måste ha tätplats i kategorin litteraturhistoriens värsta redaktionella övergrepp. Sexuell klartext dämpades eller ströks, homosexuella handlingar skrevs om eller hoppades över, drogbruket tonades ner. Hela den vilda spontana galna romanen genomgick en feghetstvätt, en försiktighetsomvandling som idag framstår som ofattbar.

In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jack Duluoz wrestles with doubt, alcohol dependency and his urge towards self-destruction, is one of Kerouac's most personal and searingly honest works. Ending with the poem 'Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur', it shows a man coming down from his hedonistic youth and trying to come to terms with fame, the world and himself.

'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob DylanSal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.

'The tender and achingly poetic account of a love affair' Lester Bangs, Rolling StoneLeo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, beautiful and a little crazy, whose dark eyes, full of suffering and sweetness, find recognition in Leo. But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love. Written in three days, The Subterraneans is, like all Kerouac's work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America.

Jack Kerouac's Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics editionOn the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.

'One of the most true, comic and grizzly journeys in American literature' Time Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California to Mexico, London to Paris and on to opium-ridden Tangiers, Kerouac chronicles their poetry, partying, mountain vigils and spiritual contemplation with unsurpassable energy and humanity. 'Nerve-jangling, sentimental, sincere and funny' Sunday Times

Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of natureA witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas.Following the explosive energy of On the Road, the book that put the Beat Genration on the literary map - and Jack Kerouac on the bestseller list - comes The Dharma Bums, in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma, or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly Bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in 'yabyum', they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow.

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

A book of letters revealing the inner desires and turmoils of Jack Kerouac after his rise to literary acclaim in the 1960s.In 1960, Jack Kerouac began a correspondence with a New York artist by the name of Jacques Beckwith. The basic subject of their letters was always the same. They each longed to build a cabin in the forest which would serve as a retreat from the pressure and disappointment of the outside world. "I want to live in the woods where I don't even have to think about this evil world of wars and dishonesties," Kerouac wrote. Beckwith offered to help Jack design and build his retreat, but after years of planning only Jacques realized the dream. The world was too much with Kerouac. Alcoholism, a paternity suit, travel, the demands of a writing career, marriage, and eventually his mother's declining health kept him from making his break. These letters document all these distractions and frustrations and reveal Kerouac's desire for the solitude which Beckwith found in the New England woods.

Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy" and "American haiku." HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH before we all go to Heaven VISIONS OF AMERICA All that hitchhikin All that railroadin All that comin back to America --Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, and a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes (City Lights) and Scripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights).

A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas.Following the explosive energy of On the Road, the book that put the Beat Genration on the literary map - and Jack Kerouac on the bestseller list - comes The Dharma Bums, in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma, or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly Bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in 'yabyum', they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow.Jack Kerouac (1922-69) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957, that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed, among them The Subterraneans, Big Sur, and The Dharma Bums. Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven.If you enjoyed The Dharma Bums, you might like Kerouac's On the Road, also available in Penguin Classics.'A vivid evocation of part of our time'New York Post'A descriptive excitement unmatched since the days of Thomas Wolfe'The New York Times Book Review

Big Sur är den roman av Kerouac som går djupast ner i självavslöjandet av Kerouacs egen personlighet och av myten Kerouac och framförallt: av alkoholisten Kerouac. Det är en av världslitteraturens mest skakande och mest lysande spritskildringar, skriven av ett författargeni som befinner sig mitt i spritdemonens dödsomfamning, insnärjd i okontrollerbara paranoida ideer, riden av delirium tremens, kämpande för att behålla sitt förstånd, kämpande för att behålla sina bilder, sina minnen, sina tankar, sin själ, kämpande för sitt liv.

Haiku-dikter tillsammans med bilder kallas enligt den japanska traditionen för ”Haiga”. Dikterna i Haikumagasinet är skrivna av både japanska mästare – som levde för flera hundra år sedan – och samtida poeter. Dikterna tolkas fritt till bilder av konstnärer, professionella tecknare, studenter och de som målar vid sidan om.

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Poeter Bo Ranman Birk Andersson Matsuo Basho Bengt O Björklund Yosa Buson Fukuda Chiyo-ni Michael Economou Eric Fylkeson Kobayashi Issa Hajime Kawakimi Jack Kerouac Christer Nilsson Otomo No Oemaru Kerstin Park Dag Persson Beatriz Quevedo de Hansen Håkan Sandell Masaoka Shiki Nagai Tatsuo Yasuhara Teishitsu Teresa Wennberg Illustratör Jonas Amnerå Anders Blomdahl Lousiana Chin Cheung Dan Faleh Irja Hulterström Ellen Kroon Isabella Karlsson Anna Landgren Joakim Larsson Wilda Levhed Michaela Linderoth Ulf Lundkvist Sara Lundstedt Martin Medin Santaro Sobun Takawaki Kathleen Tandrup Anna Wiik Formgivare Sara Lundstedt

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A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration of human discoveryAs he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat nightlife in New York; burying himself in the snow-capped mountains of north-west America; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers; or falling in love with Montmartre and the huge white basilica of Sacré-Coeur - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.'Full of startling and beautiful things ... one sees, hears and feels' Sunday Times

In alternating chapters that reveal a nascent period in their development as two of the twentieth century's most influential writers, Beat Generation icons William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac's And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an electrifying true-life mystery, including afterword by James Grauerholtz in Penguin Modern Classics.This is a hardboiled crime novel, and a true story. In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and then come to them for advice - neither had told the police. Later they wrote this fictionalised account of that summer - of a group of friends in wartime New York, moving through each other's apartments, drinking, necking, talking and taking drugs and haphazardly drifting towards a bloody crime. Unpublished for years, And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks is a remarkable insight into the lives and literary development of two great writers. If you enjoyed And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks, you might like Kerouac's On the Road, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'The novel that kicked it all off'Independent'An insight into Kerouac before he went on the road and Burroughs before his drug use spiralled out of control, this is a major literary event'GQ

Jack Kerouac: Järnvägen Jorden. Kerouac i berättartoppform berättar om hur han jobbar som bromsare på järnvägen, bor på ett sjabbigt hotell i en smutsig gränd i San Francisco och äter sin frukost på ett sjabbigt café intill. Kvinnor och män av alla slag vimlar omkring honom, käcka studentskor, bedagade horor, välsvidade affärsmän som pendlar mellan sitt hetsade businessjobb och förortens idyllvilla, trötta arbetare med seniga halsar och slitna jackor, och lodisar, universums alla evinnerliga lodisar, slocknade, utslagna änglahjältar.

'A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things' Guardian This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac's most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the strangers he meets and the all-night conversations he enjoys in seedy bars in Paris and Brittany, to the moment in a cab he experiences Buddhism's satori - a feeling of sudden awakening - Kerouac's affecting and revolutionary writing transports the reader.Published at the height of his fame, Satori in Paris is a hectic tale of philosophy, identity and the powerful strangeness of travel.

Jack Kerouacs roman De underjordiska i översättning av Andreas Vesterlund och med efterord av Peter Glas. De underjordiska är en av Kerouacs många självbiografiska berättelser som bara fått lätt förklädnad genom att de verkliga personerna har fått nya namn. Även platsen har bytts ut - från New York till San Francisco - annars är allt som sker precis vad Kerouac tyckte att han upplevde. Det hela utspelas 1953, under två månader när Kerouac genomlevde en kärleksrelation samtidigt som han festade hårt med vänner och bekanta. Vänkretsen som porträtteras är "denna fantastiska nya förbryllande grupp underjordiska" som Adam Moorad (i verkligheten Allen Ginsberg) hade upptäckt och namngett. "De är hippa utan att vara tillgjorda, intelligenta fast inte töntiga, intellektuella som fan." Gruppen har sina manér och poser: en "underjordisk typ" är inte alls öppenhjärtig och godmodig utan tvärtom "hal och hemlig", men så är de underjordiska också omöjliga att trycka ner, "de är de mest onedtryckbara i hela världen". I denna känslomässigt karga miljö träffar huvudpersonen Leo Percepied (Kerouac) den väna, fina flickan Mardou Fox (Alene Lee). Mardou är "svart överklass", delvis också indian, hon är "ung, sexig, slank, mystisk, hip". Hon är alltid sofistikerat klädd, till exempel i märkliga byxor och med fötterna i sandalremmar, medan Leo beskriver sig själv som "en stor gladlynt huligan" som kan vara så tölpigt klädd att han kan ha en "riktigt anstötlig o-Beach-aktig skjorta". Så visst är de till det yttre ett omaka par. Ändå fungerar de fint ihop. Mardou är "den enda tjejen jag nånsin känt som verkligen kan förstå och sjunga bop" och bop, alltså den improviserade bebopjazzen à la Charlie Parker, är Leos högst älskade musikform, så här har paret en trivsam, rent ut sagt underbar mötesplats. De kan också konsten att småprata tillsammans om allt möjligt. De har så likartade tankar, de "ser samma sak". Sådan är upptakten till denna smärtsamt vackra kärlekshistoria. Ingen kan som Kerouac berätta som det är, som det faktiskt är, utan skygglappar, utan självcensur. Han är inte det minsta rädd för att avslöja sina egna tillkortakommanden. Och Mardou (Alene) stannar i läsarens minne för evigt. De underjordiska (originalets titel: The Subterraneans) i översättning av Andreas Vesterlund och med efterord av Peter Glas. ISBN 978-91-7742-619-6. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, mjuka pärmar med flikomslag, 176 sidor.

In his prolific correspondence Jack Kerouac set down the raw material of the life that he would later transmute into his multi-volume "Legend of Duluoz". He also refined the seemingly freewheeling and spontaneous prose style that became his trademark. This volume contains many letters written between 1940, when Kerouac was a college freshman and 1956, immediately before his leap to celebrity status. They offer invaluable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships, travels, love affairs and literary apprenticeship, and provide accounts of the events that inspired "On the Road", "Visions of Cody" and "The Dharma Burns".

The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.