Name: Tristessa
Rating: 3.571428571428572 (7 reviews)
ISBN: 9788525424839

Jack Kerouac

Tristessa é uma junkie decaída, viciada em morfina, que vive na Cidade do México, e por ela se apaixona Jack, o protagonista deste romance, um poeta norte-americano. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1960 e baseado em fatos autobiográficos (em 1955 Kerouac apaixonou-se por uma prostituta índia chamada Esperanza), "Tristessa" é um romance triste, de linguagem pulsante, cheio de ensinamentos budistas e repleto de compaixão pelo sofrimento humano.

Tristessa

Based on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico City, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control "Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntatic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight. "This entire short novel Tristessa's a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, & pads at dawn in Mexico City slums." —Allen Ginsberg

Lovro Oreskovic

Joshua Line

Presents the story of the self-destruction of a beautiful Aztec prostitute enmeshed in the drug underworld of Mexico City

Matthew Rasnake

Bozana Radenkovic

João Mak

'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"' Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary. Based on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico city, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control. 'A narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums' Allen Ginsberg

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