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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 discovery As 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 -…

Еще при жизни Керуака провозгласили «королем битников», но он неизменно отказывался от этого титула. Все его творчество, послужившее катализатором контркультуры, пронизано желанием вырваться на свободу из общественных шаблонов, найти в жизни смысл. Поиски эти приводили к тому, что он то испытывал свой организм и психику на износ, то принимался осваивать духовные учения, в первую очередь буддизм, то путешествовал по стране и миру. Единственный в его литературном наследии сборник малой прозы «Одинокий странник» был выпущен после феноменального успеха романа «В дороге», объявленного манифестом поколения, и содержит путевые заметки, изложенные…

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of 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 Sacre-Coeur - Kerouac reveals the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment.

In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story fo the years when he was writing th books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years of wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a fire lookout on the crest of Desolation Peak in the Cascde Mountains.