Román Na ceste spôsobil v Amerike konca päťdesiatych rokov kultúrny výbuch a Jack Kerouac sa stal ikonou novej, spontánnej a odtabuizovanej literatúry. Legendárna biblia bítnickej generácie je dnes... Čítať ďalej
More je môj brat je vzburou jednotlivca voči obmedzeniam ľudskej spoločnosti a jej krutým zákonitostiam a bolestiam. Wesley Martin, hlavný hrdina, miluje more zvláštnou, nepochopiteľnou bratskou láskou... Čítať ďalej
Pôvodné redaktormi a samotným autorom neupravované znenie legendárnej knihy – biblie celej beat generation. Text písal Kerouac na dlhý zvitok papiera, aby sa nezdržiaval vkladaním nových stránok... Čítať ďalej
Stejně jako film padesátých let měl svého Jamese Deana a Marlona Branda a populární hudba Elvise Presleyho, měla americká próza onoho období Jacka Kerouaka. Kerouac nebyl nejvlivnějším autorem své... Čítať ďalej
In 1944, twenty-two year old Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript called The Haunted Life. It turned up thirteen years later in a Columbia University dormitory, and then in 2002, at a Sotheby's auction house... Čítať ďalej
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, -a sideburned hero of the snowy West.- As -Sal Paradise- and -Dean Moriarty,- the two roam the country... Čítať ďalej
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring... Čítať ďalej
'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on THE TOWN AND THE CITY Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Inspired by... Čítať ďalej
The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating... Čítať ďalej
The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful... Čítať ďalej
A tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation. It captures the intensity and the ordinariness... Čítať ďalej
Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up... Čítať ďalej
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... Čítať ďalej
'His first novel is a revelation ... the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ... wonderful' The Times The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor... Čítať ďalej
Contemporary / American EnglishOne of the most famous American books of the century.Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal Paradise’s adventures “on the road” with wild friend Dean Moriarty... Čítať ďalej
Contemporary / American EnglishOne of the most famous American books of the century.Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal Paradise’s adventures “on the road” with wild friend Dean Moriarty... Čítať ďalej
Renowned for his Beat Generation novel -On the Road-, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Written by a Kerouac scholar, this work supplements a core... Čítať ďalej
