Satori in Brittany

Literary Geographies of Brittany and Paris  

Satori in Paris is Jack Kerouac’s account of his fieldwork research in Brittany and Paris.  The book continues to fascinate publishers, so much so that Penguin have recently reissued an edition in their Modern Classics series.  It continues, too, to inspire travel writers, travel bloggers and carnettistes thanks to its autobiographical approach coupled with detailed observation of the phenomenology of the writer’s experiences.  For me, in my search for French, Kerouac’s carnet de voyage delights because it is gently laced with French words like tiny sips of strong black coffee through a Barthesian foam of milky phonemes.  But later on, a neurosis forms in the text and it begins to desire me, as I attend to it and wait for Satori. 

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