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Il sogno vuoto dell'universo: Saggi sul Buddhismo
Nel 1954 Kerouac si avvicinò allo studio del Buddhismo, i cui concettifondamentali gli risultarono congeniali e conciliabili con il suo backgroundcattolico. "Il sogno vuoto dell'universo" raccoglie gli scritti più importantidi Kerouac buddhista. "L'ultima parola" è il saggio più significativo percomprendere i termini di questa personalissima esperienza filosofica; "Lascrittura della Dorata Eternità" descrive invece il tema del "Vuotobuddhista": è qui che l'autore racconta di aver raggiunto il Satori,l'illuminazione, e di avere compreso che la conoscenza consiste nel sapere chela conoscenza non esiste e la massima saggezza raggiungibile è il nulla, la"Dorata Eternità".
125 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1996
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About the author
Jack Kerouac
361 books11.6k followersJean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes.
Kerouac is recognized for his style of stream of consciousness spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, travel, promiscuity, life in New York City, Buddhism, drugs, and poverty. He became an underground celebrity and, with other Beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. He has a lasting legacy, greatly influencing many of the cultural icons of the 1960s, including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Garcia and The Doors.
In 1969, at the age of 47, Kerouac died from an abdominal hemorrhage caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Since then, his literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published.
Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes.
Kerouac is recognized for his style of stream of consciousness spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, travel, promiscuity, life in New York City, Buddhism, drugs, and poverty. He became an underground celebrity and, with other Beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. He has a lasting legacy, greatly influencing many of the cultural icons of the 1960s, including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Garcia and The Doors.
In 1969, at the age of 47, Kerouac died from an abdominal hemorrhage caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Since then, his literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published.
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July 19, 2022
Riletto dopo una ventina d'anni (l'unico libro di Kerouac che ho tenuto in italiano, dato che in lingua originale non esiste, mi pare sia una micro-antologia di scritti sul buddismo fatta direttamente da Mondadori). Mentre anni fa mi affascinava da morire questo tipo di prosa onirica e fondamentalmente senza senso, ora mi annoia e basta.
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