Tristeza

Tristeza

by Jack Kerouac
Tristeza

Tristeza

by Jack Kerouac

Paperback(Spanish-language Edition)

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Overview

Jack Kerouac estuvo varias veces en Ciudad de México, cuando aún era un escritor primerizo que solo había publicado La ciudad y el campo y trataba de colocar En el camino. El alter ego de Kerouac, Jack Duluoz, volvió a México en verano de 1955 y en otoño de 1956. Tristeza unifica las dos últimas visitas y describe la pasión delirante y contradictoria que siente Duluoz por la joven Tristeza, que ha enviudado mientras tanto. Es la historia de una redención frustrada (una redención doble, porque Kerouac, al tratar de salvar a la muchacha de la drogadicción, trata de salvarse a sí mismo), y también un recorrido iniciático por el infierno de la capital mexicana. Esperanza Villanueva, según contó Kerouac años después, acabó casándose con el jefe de policía de Ciudad de México. La novela se publicó en edición de bolsillo en 1960.

Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young woman, a prostitute and addict to certain drugs, whom he fell in love with during one of his stays in Mexico -a country that he frequently visited - by the middle of the fifties. Wrapped in a spiritual atmosphere that expresses the yearnings of Kerouac to find himself, Tristessa is the story of the strange loving relationship that the author had with Esperanza, as well as the significant description of the atmosphere that surrounded it, which depicts some key places of Mexico City back then. Hero of the beat generation, the creator of a model of life that would be followed by thousands of young people in the entire world, a sui generis mystic, Tristessa is one of his fresher and better achieved works.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788433914002
Publisher: Anagrama
Publication date: 04/30/2023
Edition description: Spanish-language Edition
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 1,084,284
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Language: Spanish

About the Author

About The Author
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American author and painter and the central figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s. His most famous books include On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Big Sur. Several of his novels have been adapted into popular films. In 1959 Kerouac released his long-form poem, Mexico City Blues, which is his most important work of poetry. Few authors can claim as large an influence on American culture as Jack Kerouac and his examinations of youth and rebellion.
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