Wake Up
A Life of the Buddha
(Sprache: Englisch)
»Lebendiger Buddha«. Die Biographie von Jack Kerouac über den historischen Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, und den Weg zur Erleuchtung. Zu seinen Lebzeiten nie publiziert.
In den 1950er Jahren entdeckte Jack Kerouac seine Faszination für den Buddhismus. Diese...
In den 1950er Jahren entdeckte Jack Kerouac seine Faszination für den Buddhismus. Diese...
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»Lebendiger Buddha«. Die Biographie von Jack Kerouac über den historischen Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, und den Weg zur Erleuchtung. Zu seinen Lebzeiten nie publiziert.
In den 1950er Jahren entdeckte Jack Kerouac seine Faszination für den Buddhismus. Diese spirituelle Erweckung fand ihre literarische Form in »Wake Up«. Mit grosser poetischer Ausdruckskraft erzählt er nicht nur das Leben des Siddhartha Gautama. Er schreibt gleichzeitig eine Einführung in die buddhistische Lehre. »Wake Up« ist das amerikanische Pendant zu Hermann Hesses Siddhartha. Mit einem Vorwort von Robert Thurman.
In den 1950er Jahren entdeckte Jack Kerouac seine Faszination für den Buddhismus. Diese spirituelle Erweckung fand ihre literarische Form in »Wake Up«. Mit grosser poetischer Ausdruckskraft erzählt er nicht nur das Leben des Siddhartha Gautama. Er schreibt gleichzeitig eine Einführung in die buddhistische Lehre. »Wake Up« ist das amerikanische Pendant zu Hermann Hesses Siddhartha. Mit einem Vorwort von Robert Thurman.
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Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, Jack Kerouac's Wake Up is a clear and powerful study of the life and works of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, from the author of On the Road. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Robert Thurman.
Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father's palace, Siddhartha adopts a homeless life, struggles with his meditations, and eventually finds Enlightenment. Written at the end of Kerouac's career, when he became increasingly interested in Buddhist teachings, and collected for the first time in one book, this fresh and accessible biography is both an important addition to Kerouac's work and a valuable introduction to the world of Buddhism itself.
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 Wake Up, you might like Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'[Kerouac] defines the attitudes of an entire generation'
Guardian
Autoren-Porträt von Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.eriences of the Beat generation of the 1950s. This may clearly be seen in his most famous novel On the Road, and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His first more orthodox published novel was The Town and the City. Jack Kerouac, who described himself as a 'strange solitary crazy Catholic mystic,' was working on his longest novel, a surrealistic study of the last ten years of his life when he died in 1969, aged forty-seven.Other works by Jack Kerouac include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. On the Road: The Original Scroll, the full uncensored transcription of the original manuscript of On the Road, is published by Penguin Modern Classics.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jack Kerouac
- 2008, 176 Seiten, Masse: 12,8 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141189460
- ISBN-13: 9780141189468
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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