“Enamórate de tu vida. Cada minuto.”
“Be in
love with your life. Every minute of it.”
Jack Kerouac fue un
escritor estadounidense, pionero de La Generación Beat (Beat Generation) junto
a sus amigos William S. Burroughs y Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac es reconocido por
su prosa espontánea. Su obra abarca temas como la espiritualidad católica, el
jazz, la promiscuidad, el budismo, las drogas, la pobreza y los viajes. Se
convirtió en una celebridad clandestina y progenitor del movimiento hippie, a
pesar de estar en contra de determinadas ideologías políticas radicales.
JackKerouac; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and
poet of French-Canadian descent. He is considered a literary iconoclast and,
alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his
work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism,
drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other
beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic
toward some of its politically radical elements.
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