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Title: Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan ISBN: 0-14-016811-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Romance that could never Be
Comment: The first thing that struck me about this book was the way it ends. It ends with an ellipsis. How many books to you read that end like that? Not many would be my guess. As for the story this book is more about the voice of Kerouac. He is exposing more of himself than in any other book. The book is less about a story and more about to be Kerouac in Mexico, without anything to give him comfort. Rather he is lost in himself, drunk and confused. He finds a woman who he wants to be with. Someone he can hold someone her can touch, yet the problems lies in the fact that he can't tell her.
Yet you can read between the lines and see a man who is giving up upon himself. Faced with uncertainty, wavering from his strong Buddhist beliefs. This book is more personal than I ever knew. This book can almost be seen as Kerouac moving against what he believed. Everything comes into question. The fact that Tristessa is addicted to drugs, plays on the point of what is he to do? On the one hand he loves her and on the other he can't bring himself to tell her that.
I have loved this book from the first time I read it when I was a junior in high school. The beauty of this book is amazing can never be stated enough. This is a must read for any Kerouac fan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Kerouac's most overlooked novel, and his best.
Comment: Kerouac has fallen in and out of cult hero worship, for many
reasons. He was the forefather of the spectacularly popular
Beat Generation, his books are full of raw energy and
rebellion, and he died of a brain hemorrhage watching "The
Galloping Gourmet". These are all wonderful reasons to read
"On the Road" or "Subterraneans". Do not read "Tristessa"
for these reasons. Read "Tristessa" for its pure Kerouac
voice, for its wonderful hollow music which echoes the
wildest romantic poets, the heroin-desperate streets of Mexico
City, and the soul of Kerouac himself. This is Kerouac's
most haunting, melodic, and starkly religious work,
the story of true love and the lie of love, the story of
hope and of the crush of drugs, poverty and despair.
To read this
book is to be Kerouac, to be crazy-drunk with no place to
sleep and no money to eat, but to be crying with happiness
because the woman you love is unconscious in the gutter beside
you. You can hear the words inside your head long after
you close the book... "shouldna done it Lord, Awakenerhood,
shouldna played the suffering-and-dying game with the children in
your own mind, shoulda whistled for the music and danced..." "I love her but the song
is---broken---"
Rating: 5
Summary: On Tristessa
Comment: Well, Jack Kerouac does it again with his beautifully melancholic, poetic prose. His descriptions of something as simple as the floor where he stays is enough to draw tears. His wonderfully drug-induced rantings of the beauty of "morphina" and the Virgin Mary Statuette are emotionally charged enough to make anyone a spiritual drug-addicted Buddhist with Catholic images and intense philosophical thought. Definitely worth reading.
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Title: Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0802131867 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan ISBN: 0140168125 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson ISBN: 1573225053 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140042520 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140144528 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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