Never before published in Kerouacs lifetime Jack Kerouacs 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 Siddharthas royal upbringing and his fathers 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 fathers palace Siddhartha adopts a homeless life struggles with his meditations and eventually finds Enlightenment. Written at the end of Kerouacs 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 Kerouacs 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 Kerouacs The Dharma Bums also available in Penguin Modern Classics.[Kerouac] defines the attitudes of an entire generationGuardian About the Author Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell Massachusetts in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell he decided to become a writer at age seventee... See more
Never before published in Kerouacs lifetime Jack Kerouacs 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 Siddharthas royal upbringing and his fathers 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 fathers palace Siddhartha adopts a homeless life struggles with his meditations and eventually finds Enlightenment. Written at the end of Kerouacs 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 Kerouacs 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 Kerouacs The Dharma Bums also available in Penguin Modern Classics.[Kerouac] defines the attitudes of an entire generationGuardian About the Author 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 inOn the Road and also inThe Subterraneans andThe Dharma Bums. His other works includeBig Sur Desolation Angels Lonesome Traveler Visions of Gerard Tristessa and a book of poetry calledMexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.